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Fault Family System: Powertrain (P-Codes) 51 SAE Codes

Ion Current Sense Circuit

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
Code P2890 (Cylinder 1 Ion Current Sense Circuit) sets when the ECM detects an open, shorted, or implausible signal on a per-cylinder ion-current sensing circuit, which measures the small current across the spark plug gap after ignition to detect misfire and knock without separate sensors, or finds the ion-sense module's supply voltage out of range. Causes are a fouled or worn spark plug distorting the ion signal, a failing coil-on-plug unit with integrated ion electronics, or a corroded supply connector at the ion-sense module.

These 51 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 51 times.

Codes in this family (51)

CodeDefinitionRepair coverage
P2890Cylinder 1 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P2891Cylinder 1 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P2892Cylinder 1 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P2893Cylinder 1 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P2894Cylinder 2 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P2895Cylinder 2 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P2896Cylinder 2 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P2897Cylinder 2 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P2898Cylinder 3 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P2899Cylinder 3 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P289ACylinder 3 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P289BCylinder 3 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P289CCylinder 4 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P289DCylinder 4 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P289ECylinder 4 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P289FCylinder 4 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28A0Cylinder 5 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28A1Cylinder 5 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28A2Cylinder 5 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28A3Cylinder 5 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28A4Cylinder 6 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28A5Cylinder 6 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28A6Cylinder 6 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28A7Cylinder 6 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28A8Cylinder 7 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28A9Cylinder 7 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28AACylinder 7 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28ABCylinder 7 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28ACCylinder 8 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28ADCylinder 8 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28AECylinder 8 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28AFCylinder 8 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28B0Cylinder 9 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28B1Cylinder 9 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28B2Cylinder 9 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28B3Cylinder 9 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28B4Cylinder 10 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28B5Cylinder 10 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28B6Cylinder 10 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28B7Cylinder 10 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28B8Cylinder 11 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28B9Cylinder 11 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28BACylinder 11 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28BBCylinder 11 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28BCCylinder 12 Ion Current Sense Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28BDCylinder 12 Ion Current Sense Circuit Range/Performance3 ranked fixes
P28BECylinder 12 Ion Current Sense Circuit Low3 ranked fixes
P28BFCylinder 12 Ion Current Sense Circuit High3 ranked fixes
P28C0Ion Sense Module Supply Voltage Circuit3 ranked fixes
P28C1Ion Sense Module Supply Voltage Low3 ranked fixes
P28C2Ion Sense Module Supply Voltage High3 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: