[DeTomaso] Clean battery cables

[detomasoregistry at gmail.com]

Sometimes there is an advantage to clearing out the computer also.

I've be given a couple of cars for "Italian Tune-ups". Well initially
to test and trouble-shoot.

Recently a 2001-2 Trans Am that was running poorly.  
The owner has been putting to and from work (less than 10 miles) for over a year,
and noticed it stumbled and seemed way down on power and mileage.  
I disconnected the battery to check some other things.  I had yet to do anything other
than the battery, and took it for a test drive.

It seemed better that his demo ride an hour earlier.  
I then drove it "well" and after about 40 miles she was once again quit perky.

I added some stuff to the fuel just in case, but I believe it had "learned" his
"grand-pa dawg mode" and needed to re-learn or reload its performance mode.

He has been keeping her fit since as instructed, using the freeway onramps.

The point is, resetting the computer can do good, more than just resetting
the engine fault check codes.


Chuck



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of
larry at ohiotimecorp.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:41 PM
To: boyd411 at gmail.com; Bill Lewis
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Clean battery cables

Hi Bill,

I will give you a sales answer, yes and no.

By disconecting the battery you will loose the learned computer settings and also your
preset radio 
settings. Is this a big deal? Not really. You can buy a simple sigerate lighter plug and
hook it to an 
other battery (even a 9 volt) to hold your settings.

Larry - Cleveland


On Mon Jan 18 19:30 , Bill Lewis  sent:

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>I own a Pantera, but I don't have this problem with it:  I have a '98 Jeep Wrangler, and
a '07 Toyota 
Tundra P/U.  Both of them have pretty bad corrosion on the battery terminals.  In the old
days, I 
would undo them, clean them and go on down the road, but with new cars and computers,
would it screw 
up the computer or anything else?   Thanks, Bill
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