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#engine damage
3 posts in Car Diagnostics blog about "engine damage" — OBD-II diagnostics, DTC codes, repair. ← All posts
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P0217: engine over-temperature condition — the code after the damage starts
Most codes warn you. This one records that the engine already exceeded its safe temperature, which makes it a damage-assessment code as much as a diagnostic one.
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P0520 to P0523: oil pressure sensor circuit — sensor or actual pressure?
This is the one category where guessing wrong destroys the engine. Treat every oil pressure warning as real until you have proved it is the sensor.
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P0016: the code you should not postpone — crankshaft and camshaft out of correlation
Most codes will wait until the weekend. This one will not. The module is reporting that the crankshaft and camshaft have taken up a position relative to each other that should be impossible, and the usual cause is a stretched timing chain.