The drive cycle can be difficult to follow exactly under normal driving conditions. Therefore, it is better to drive it in restricted area! A field manual on contextualizing cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to connected cars through penetration testing and risk assessment

On mine, I have to turn the ignition off, stamp on the brake and gas, then turn the ignition on until the dash lights up.. et voila, the fault code is shown on the odometer.Decelerate (const down) to 30 km/h (20 mph) without braking or depressing the clutch for manual transmissions. Still seems a moronic way of doing things though, I mean, why can’t they just make the centre console display “Cam sensor failure” instead of “ECN 036504”, it’s almost as if Microsoft wrote the software !

The universal OBD-II drive cycle begins with a cold start (coolant temperature below 50 C /122 F, and the coolant and air temperature sensors within 11 degrees of one another). This condition is easily achieved by letting the car to sit overnight.

Today, many vehicle manufacturers include these drive cycles in the vehicle owner’s manual. Typically, a few days of normal driving, both city and highway, will make the monitors ready. The following generic drive cycle can be used as a guideline if a specific drive cycle is not known. It will assist with resetting monitors when a car specific drive cycle is not available. However, it may not work for all cars and monitors. Start the engine and idle the engine in drive for two and half minutes, with the A/C and rear defroster on if equipped. The two most technically complex things I own are my car and my computer, and there is much more information available on how to fix or modify any part of my computer. If I had a desire to modify my car so I could read the value of the tire pressure monitors, instead of only being notified when one of them is too low, there’s nowhere for me to turn.