

These tools, and related software/hardware, provide the functionality required to troubleshoot self-diagnostic systems on Honda-produced OBD vehicles. Honda Diagnostic System Personal Computer (PC) Software.Teradyne Diagnostic System Pocket Tester Kit (Pocket Tester).Honda Diagnostic System Tablet Tester (HDS Tablet Tester).I learnt a lot during my time with the software engineers and it took a lot of the mystique out of electronic control systems fitted to vehicles.Honda currently offers three options for the purchase of diagnostic testing tools: I do a lot with motorcycle sport and the Superbike Ducati's have a button on the dash that the rider presses when he comes to the start line which does exactly the same and gives him a couple of BHP more at the beginning of the race.


This normally means that the engine is then on Max Power for any throttle opening and the owner notices this and comments that it runs brilliantly after a servicing. When any vehicle is serviced and the DTC's erased the ECU goes back to the manufacturers default setting and begins the relearn process all over again. If you erase the memory every servicing it prevents spurious codes mounting up and then putting your ECU into Limp Home Mode at the most inconvenient moment, for instance 150 miles from home late at night. The other reason for the procedure is that an Engine Management ECU has a "Self Learn" facility that allows it to learn how you ride and operate the throttle etc. The other reason why I carry out this procedure is because an Engine Management ECU will save faults in it's memory until it reaches a pre determined amount of the same fault, then it will put the dash board DTC fault Light on and put the Engine Management ECU into Limp Home Mode.

I do know that the original BMW Mini's had a concealed switch under the handbrake lever that you pressed to extinguish the Service Indicator Light, so it could very well do. Sorry I have no idea if the method works with Service Indicator Lights.
