The readiness monitors are designed to keep someone from clearing the vehicle’s computer memory and check-engine light to get the car to pass a smog test when it should have failed.
The battery might have just lost too much power at one point, wiping clean the on-board computer’s memory. The car needs to know it has driven around a bit, creating a legitimate history.
You may need to reset the car by driving it a long distance at a steady pace over a relatively flat course. Honk had a friend drive the Honkmobile 80 to 100 steady freeway miles to reset the computer. Two years ago, an expert with the Automobile Club of Southern California told Honk a reader needed to drive a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am about 50 miles “with the gas tank no more than three-fourth’s full and no less one-fourth full.”
Daniel, Honk recommends you call up some Cadillac dealerships and ask their mechanics, and yours if you have a different one, how many miles you should drive, and if there are any procedures you should take. If you have a lot of time before you need the smog test, your regular jaunts might do the trick.
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