About a month ago i worked on my 98 sonata and afterwards i had to take it to inspection and it failed because the struts were bad and the emissions was not in ready mode.i fixed the struts and drive the car for 200 miles and took it back but it still failed. i put in on my scanner and it said it was still pending. so confused i called the dealer and they told me there weren't sure it could be any where from 200 to 600 miles. i said ok weird they don't know but whatever. so now it has over 1200 miles on the car. it failed twice and come Monday if it fails again i got big issues cuz i prolly can't drive the car. i was hoping someone here could tell me what or how to get the car into ready mode by Monday.

*update*

some one told me to take the computer to dealer to be re-flashed. its a comon problem which is why its not going into ready mode because its not reading the drive cycles. any one ever hear of this ?

For this model there is a TSB that addresses this very issue, TSB #02-36-030.

This post has been edited by LilBean: Jul 3 2008, 10:29 AM

awesome thx! you don't happen to know exactly what is says on all data? my mechanic is gonna for holiday i gotta wait a few days but i was curious what it said. Monday the computer is going to get re-flashed.

It's not on AllData... It's on hmaservice.com, Hyundai's service website. Free to register and use, by the way, unlike AllData. Anyway, here's the link to the TSB, if you can't access it let me know and I'll put up a Word document. For some reason it's not available in PDF.

TSB 02-36-030

I kind of skimmed through it, didn't really read it too thoroughly, but it seems to talk in circles... lol. I'm used to reading TSBs but this one is just kind of confusing to me. So don't ask me to explain it. :whistling:

This post has been edited by LilBean: Jul 3 2008, 07:07 PM

awesome thx so much!

i created a pdf for ya. in case u wanted to hang on to it.