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Ever since i've join the forum, i keep hearing all these things about Autozone, that they're the Sh!# w/free diagnostics and yahdee yahdee yahdah... i blaze down there, the one on CAPITOL EXPRESSWAY and ask if they read CEL's... homeboy said "NOPE." i was like "you mean... not anymore." Dude just looked at me. So i bought some vinyl cleaner and that was that. My question is do they still do it? or is it just the SJ store, has the policy changed?
Jeff Silva
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The state of Cali has banned "free" code reading. The dealers got toughter and went before the stae and claimed that they were losing a ton of money because no one went to them to get their codes read because "Parts stores" were doing it for free. In any other state they will do it for you for free. My buddies still go to autozone in NC and have theirs read for free. So there are alot of people here on the boards that still have their codes read for free. Just not us Cali guys.
Later,
Eric
Just a Plain SE.
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I maybe path914's B**** now, but wait until he needs his clutch done. We will see WHO is WHO's B**** then!
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Yup, I hate when someone on here acts like I'm the idiot and says "why don't you just go to Autozone and get them read for free!" Then I have to explain to them over and over again that CA has made that illegal.
99 SVTC, T-Red, #652/2760-12.8.1998
Mother#@%@!* did I sound abstract?
I hope it sounded more confusin than that!
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i got obd II and charge $35 to scan codes
98 svt contour, magnaflows, sho shop intake, sho shop high flow cat, no pre cats, custom cougars short shifter, 3 liter hybird engine woo hoo im happy, and just added a dmd underdrive pulley.
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I got OBDII and scan for free if you drive to my house, I even loan out tools and don't complaing when people (ahem) don't return them after months on end 
97 Contour SE MTX
K&N 3530, UR UDP, 19# Injectors, mystery mod, FMS wires, Fordchip.com chip, SVT: TB, Flywheel, clutch, exhaust
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Quote:
i got obd II and charge $35 to scan codes
That kinda sucks. You can buy a code reader for that much...Once I get mine, I'll let people use it free of charge, geez...
99 SVTC, T-Red, #652/2760-12.8.1998
Mother#@%@!* did I sound abstract?
I hope it sounded more confusin than that!
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Originally posted by ScottK:
I got OBDII and scan for free if you drive to my house, I even loan out tools and don't complaing when people (ahem) don't return them after months on end
Who you talking too? 
Just a Plain SE.
AKA Big Country
I maybe path914's B**** now, but wait until he needs his clutch done. We will see WHO is WHO's B**** then!
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awww man. That sucks major horse dookie. Thanks for the reply guys. wish i shoulda posted it before i went to Autozone cuz people were lookin at me like... "yeah, whatever guy." Any of you guys get CEL? and if so what caused your guys' light to come on??
Jeff Silva
E0 Contour SVT Silver
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-K&N Drop In
-Ford Racing Wires (w/Bosch +2's)
-Cleared Headlights
-Yokohama AVS ES100's
-Alpine CDA7893 w/MBQuartz
-EUROLITE 9006/893
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I am a manager at Autozone in UT. We read the codes, but there has been some major uproar of that. we used to be able to clear them and stuff, but now we aren't allowed...some lawsuit...whatever, but I also worked at a shop and understand it from a mechanic's point of view...most of them have spent some serious money on their machines and need to recoop that costs... ie. Snap on machines...a couple grand I'm sure. So it wouldn't surprise me if that happened in CA.
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