I spoke to an Isuzu dealer and they said it would probably take 4-8 days to go through enough complete drive cycles. One drive cycle is requires starting up, driving some unknown highway distance, some unknown city distance and then a complete cooldown before doing it again. Rinse, repeat.

I went back last night for another inspection and now only 3 segments of the system were considered "not ready". I am concerned that once I hit the right number of cycles, the CEL will come back on and show a PO442 (EVAP Emission Control System leak, small).

If it wasn't the gas cap, what else should I check? I just bought the VX and I think the engine was steam cleaned. Is there something that could have been damaged? My girlfriend has a New Beetle and said that she remembered some Beetle forum said to clean the PCV.

Any ideas?

Dean
2001 VX
St. Louis, MO