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

EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
Code P2492 (EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Bank 1) sets when the ECM sees an open, shorted, implausible, or learning-limit-exceeded signal from the position sensor that confirms where the EGR cooler bypass valve's flap actually sits, on either bank of a dual-cooler engine. The same carbon and soot deposits that jam the bypass valve mechanically also coat the position sensor's magnet or contact track, shifting its reported travel outside the ECM's learned window.

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
P2492EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Bank 13 ranked fixes
P2493EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Range/Performance Bank 13 ranked fixes
P2494EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Low Bank 13 ranked fixes
P2495EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit High Bank 13 ranked fixes
P2496EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Intermittent/Erratic Bank 13 ranked fixes
P2497EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Bank 23 ranked fixes
P2498EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Range/Performance Bank 23 ranked fixes
P2499EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Low Bank 23 ranked fixes
P249AEGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit High Bank 23 ranked fixes
P249BEGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Circuit Intermittent/Erratic Bank 23 ranked fixes
P24C4EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Exceeded Learning Limit Bank 13 ranked fixes
P24C5EGR Cooler Bypass Position Sensor Exceeded Learning Limit Bank 23 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: