Car computer issue

Submitted: Monday, Jan 23, 2006 at 14:41
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Hi Guys,

I am looking for expert advice. The problem is this, I was working on my car (no not the Nissan) over the weekend and I had to disconnect the battery so that I could tighten the positive connection on the starter motor. All’s well and I reconnect the battery (hear a peep from the alarm), got in the car to find that everything needs resetting as expected. Take the car for a drive, had an errant that was 250K round trip, and find that the car is running much better than it has been for months (maybe years).

The question is, did I reset the car computer to factory defaults when I disconnected the battery? I presume that there would be any number of uncleared errors and the like and by resetting the computer I have cleared out this luggage as well. This seemed the most logical explanation I can come up with (a bit like rebooting the old puter when it is playing up).

This interests me because I can see that it could be useful when out in the scrub and the car is being temperamental. I’d like to hope that these black boxes are that simple and need a reboot occasionally to clear the clutter.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Kind regards
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