Conditions for Clearing the DTC

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The DTC becomes history when the fault is no longer present.
A history DTC will clear after 100 consecutive ignition cycles if the condition for the malfunction is no longer present.
The BCM receives the clear code command from the scan tool.

Fig 1: DTC B2961 Body Control Module - Diagnostic Table

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