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Fault Family System: Powertrain (P-Codes) 18 SAE Codes

Catalyst Temp Sensor Circuit

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
Code P0425 (Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Bank 1 Sensor 1) sets when the ECM sees an open, shorted, or implausible resistance from a catalyst bed temperature sensor (bank/position specific), or detects a correlation mismatch between two catalyst temperature sensors that should track together. Causes are a corroded connector exposed to underbody heat and road spray, a failed thermistor element, or chafed wiring near the exhaust.

These 18 diagnostic trouble codes share one detection mechanism and one repair path, which is why MechanicDB groups them into a single authored fault family rather than repeating the same explanation 18 times.

Codes in this family (18)

CodeDefinitionRepair coverage
P0425Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Bank 1 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0426Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Range/Performance Bank 1 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0427Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Low Bank 1 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0428Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit High Bank 1 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P042ACatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Bank 1 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P042BCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Range/Performance Bank 1 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P042CCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Low Bank 1 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P042DCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit High Bank 1 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P0435Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Bank 2 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0436Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Range/Performance Bank 2 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0437Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Low Bank 2 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P0438Catalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit High Bank 2 Sensor 14 ranked fixes
P043ACatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Bank 2 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P043BCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Range/Performance Bank 2 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P043CCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit Low Bank 2 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P043DCatalyst Temperature Sensor Circuit High Bank 2 Sensor 24 ranked fixes
P046ACatalyst Temperature Sensor 1/2 Correlation Bank 14 ranked fixes
P046BCatalyst Temperature Sensor 1/2 Correlation Bank 24 ranked fixes

What this page does not show

This page publishes the fault mechanism and the code index. The licensed dataset adds, for every one of the 15,886 codes, the full authored repair set (56,729 procedures in total) with the fields deliberately withheld here: