Take it to AutoZone, they will read the code and reset it for free

"monkey" <monkey@monkey.com> wrote in message
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> Just a heads up.
>
> My mom has a 2000 Accord LX sedan 2.3L auto that she just loves.
> The car has been well flawless since she bought it. Well about
> 6 weeks ago, she called me saying that her check engine light
> came on and won't go off. She stated that my youngest brother
> has gasing up her car and that he didn't tighten up the gas
> cap correctly. She tightened the gas cap but the problem didn't
> go away. I told her to wait it out before taking it into have
> the car looked at. About 3 weeks after her car, I made a trip
> to Houston to visit family. I gave her car a good once over
> to see if anything was obviously out of wack.
>
> I went through her owners manual about refilling and found out
> that her Accord has a vapor recovery system that would trigger
> the check engine light if the cap wasn't tightened with 3 clicks.
> According to the manual the problem would go away after 3 trips
> if the cap placed on again correctly. But it had been 3 weeks
> and much more then 3 trips. So I was at a crossroad. She wanted
> me to take it into the dealer to have looked at. But I was a
> bit skeptical. Instead I took a $10 gamble and purchased her
> a new gas cap from Honda. 2 weeks later the light still wouldn't
> come off. She was really getting worried now so I told her to
> go ahead and take it in to have inspected ($80). Well on the
> drive to the dealer, the check engine light finally came off.
>
> Since the light didn't come of until an event (not closing the
> gas cap correctly), I knew it was something related to that.
> However I didn't think it would take soooo long for the system
> to recover from it.