Sensor Sensor where are thou ?
Hi all;
Well we took a very large step forward today in getting this car back onto the road and operational. We had friends over last night and Ben works for a company that deals with car electrics and fuel. We got talking about the issues I have been having and offered to run my ECU over the latest computer diagnostic machines to see if we could get any closer to a solution.
So headed over there this afternoon, plugged in the computer set it up, and presto straight away 3 errors recorded on system. Now I know that sounds bad, but in this case it was good. Seems Greg diag computer could not read my system.
We have a fault at the crank angle sensor and the Camshaft Dephaser. Ben called the guys who knew what this meant and we have two possible answers.
(1) The oil in the car is incorrect. When the service was done in Sydney the guy could have used the wrong oil. This will cause the dephaser to not work correctly when adjusting the VVT cam timing. It could also be throwing the crank sensor as it is unable to detect misfire because the cams are not in sequence. So a change of oil to a 5W-40 or similar might fix the issue.
(2) The alternative is to replace the dephaser solenoid, and the crank angle sensor. Both are fairly easy to get to and replace. If the dephaser keeps throwing a code we could need a new pulley and this is a large job akin to replacing cam belt.
Either way all of the issues we currently have with the car can be explained away by these error codes, something that we have not been able to do in the past. This is good news for me as it means that for the first time in 6 weeks I will have a car that I can rely on when I go out.
Happy :)
Well we took a very large step forward today in getting this car back onto the road and operational. We had friends over last night and Ben works for a company that deals with car electrics and fuel. We got talking about the issues I have been having and offered to run my ECU over the latest computer diagnostic machines to see if we could get any closer to a solution.
So headed over there this afternoon, plugged in the computer set it up, and presto straight away 3 errors recorded on system. Now I know that sounds bad, but in this case it was good. Seems Greg diag computer could not read my system.
We have a fault at the crank angle sensor and the Camshaft Dephaser. Ben called the guys who knew what this meant and we have two possible answers.
(1) The oil in the car is incorrect. When the service was done in Sydney the guy could have used the wrong oil. This will cause the dephaser to not work correctly when adjusting the VVT cam timing. It could also be throwing the crank sensor as it is unable to detect misfire because the cams are not in sequence. So a change of oil to a 5W-40 or similar might fix the issue.
(2) The alternative is to replace the dephaser solenoid, and the crank angle sensor. Both are fairly easy to get to and replace. If the dephaser keeps throwing a code we could need a new pulley and this is a large job akin to replacing cam belt.
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Either way all of the issues we currently have with the car can be explained away by these error codes, something that we have not been able to do in the past. This is good news for me as it means that for the first time in 6 weeks I will have a car that I can rely on when I go out.
Happy :)
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