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Originally Posted by Karl07
Read using a Joying headunit running torque, via A OBDLINK SX obd2 usb adapter.
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The abs, and traction control lights came on and cruise control stopped working.
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Basically was saying that there was bad communication in the car.
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I'd almost be willing to bet money the code was U0073. If so, Torque is the culprit. It's a known issue.
If you shut the car off while Torque is running and then start it back up with Torque
still running on your device, the ECM will often throw a U0073 communications error code. It's not expecting to see Torque there talking to it when it boots up and thinks something has gone wrong. U0073 puts the car into protective mode, killing your cruise control and air conditioning, lighting up the traction light and causing the engine to be sluggish. If you drive it with the code showing, the car will continue to be sluggish for several on/off cycles, even after you clear the code, but it goes back to normal after a day or two. If this is what's happening, it's no big deal, and you're not doing any damage to the car.
The remedy is to make sure Torque is OFF before you start the car. The easiest way to turn Torque completely off is to hit the "back" button on your device repeatedly until you get a dialog box asking if you want to exit Torque, then click the "Yes" button.
I run Torque full time, but after experiencing this several times I have made it part of my normal shut down procedure to make sure Torque is off when I shut off the car. I even tried to set Tasker up on my tablet to kill Torque when the car was shut off, but in the end it was just easier to do it manually.