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Old 27th August 2015, 02:47 PM
Mechcanico Lee Mechcanico Lee is offline
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Originally Posted by irelandbuyer View Post
All,

Wondering if this has happened here before.

Car was rattling on cold last week, was OK when it warmed up. Nothing else for the rest of the day.

The following day, the Emmissions Light came on so I brought it to my local independent who ran a diagnostic and it threw up the following fault:

"Fault Code: P0391/Cam Shaft POS Sensor.Bank 2"

We're going to swop this to the other side and see if the problem follows it and if so, then replace the sensor. Hopefully it's just a sensor but the concern of the technician is that this is actually a deeper issue with the timing chain and he feels it's an early warning that something else is amiss..

I read elsewhere that you can see from the readings if the timing chain is elongated?

Wondering if anybody has heard of this fault code etc?

Cheers.....
Which engine , petrol , diesel ...... does it have variable timing control cams
The rattling maybe suggests stretched timing chain so yes you would get the code you have .
To check the cam /crank synchronisation with out a strip down you need to scope cam and crank signals and compare to a known good waveform trace .

Thinking about it if in the data blocks you have relative cam angle to crank , yes you could see from this if the chain is stretched

Last edited by Mechcanico Lee; 27th August 2015 at 02:51 PM.
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