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Fault Family System: Powertrain (P-Codes) 12 SAE Codes

Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
Code P26A4 (Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit) sets when the ECM sees an open, shorted, implausible, or intermittent signal from the position sensor on coolant bypass valve A, or the sensor's reported travel no longer reaches the learned minimum or maximum stop. A worn sensor track, deposits shifting the valve's actual stop positions away from the learned values, and a corroded connector at the valve actuator are the common causes.

These 12 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 12 times.

Codes in this family (12)

CodeDefinitionRepair coverage
P26A4Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit3 ranked fixes
P26A5Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P26A6Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P26A7Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P26A8Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Circuit Intermittent/Erratic3 ranked fixes
P26A9Engine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Stop/Minimum Stop Performance3 ranked fixes
P26AAEngine Coolant Bypass Valve A Position Sensor Maximum Stop Performance3 ranked fixes
P2AA7Engine Coolant Bypass Valve B Position Sensor Circuit3 ranked fixes
P2AA8Engine Coolant Bypass Valve B Position Sensor Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P2AA9Engine Coolant Bypass Valve B Position Sensor Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P2AAAEngine Coolant Bypass Valve B Position Sensor Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P2AABEngine Coolant Bypass Valve B Position Sensor Circuit Intermittent/Erratic3 ranked fixes

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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: