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Fault Family System: Powertrain (P-Codes) 49 SAE Codes

Reductant Heater Circuit

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
P202A (Reductant Tank Heater Control Circuit/Open) belongs to the network of electric heaters (tank, supply line, metering unit, or coolant-routed heater valve, identified A through F) that keep diesel exhaust fluid from freezing in cold weather. The ECM distinguishes a heater with no continuity, one drawing too little or too much current, or one whose control relay has failed, but in every case the underlying cause is the same family: a burned-out heating element, a corroded splice in the heater harness, or a stuck heater relay.

These 49 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 49 times.

Codes in this family (49)

CodeDefinitionRepair coverage
P202AReductant Tank Heater Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P202BReductant Tank Heater Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P202CReductant Tank Heater Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P209FReductant Tank Heater Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20B1Reductant Heater Coolant Control Valve Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20B2Reductant Heater Coolant Control Valve Performance/Stuck Open4 ranked fixes
P20B3Reductant Heater Coolant Control Valve Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20B4Reductant Heater Coolant Control Valve Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P20B5Reductant Metering Unit Heater Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20B6Reductant Metering Unit Heater Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20B7Reductant Metering Unit Heater Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20B8Reductant Metering Unit Heater Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P20B9Reductant Heater A Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20BAReductant Heater A Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20BBReductant Heater A Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20BCReductant Heater A Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P20BDReductant Heater B Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20BEReductant Heater B Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20BFReductant Heater B Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20C0Reductant Heater B Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P20C1Reductant Heater C Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20C2Reductant Heater C Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20C3Reductant Heater C Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20C4Reductant Heater C Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P20C5Reductant Heater D Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P20C6Reductant Heater D Control Circuit Performance4 ranked fixes
P20C7Reductant Heater D Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P20C8Reductant Heater D Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P214FReductant Heater A Current Too High4 ranked fixes
P215EReductant Heater D Current Too Low4 ranked fixes
P215FReductant Heater D Current Too High4 ranked fixes
P21C2Reductant Heater Relay Control Circuit/Open4 ranked fixes
P21C3Reductant Heater Relay Control Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P21C4Reductant Heater Relay Control Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P21DDReductant Heater A Current Too Low4 ranked fixes
P221CReductant Heater B Current Too Low4 ranked fixes
P221DReductant Heater B Current Too High4 ranked fixes
P221EReductant Heater C Current Too Low4 ranked fixes
P221FReductant Heater C Current Too High4 ranked fixes
P223AReductant Heater E Control Circuit4 ranked fixes
P223BReductant Heater F Control Circuit4 ranked fixes
P241EReductant Heater Coolant Control Valve Stuck Closed4 ranked fixes
P248AReductant Heater A Sense Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P248BReductant Heater A Sense Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P248CReductant Heater B Sense Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P248DReductant Heater B Sense Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P24D2Reductant Heater A Sense Circuit4 ranked fixes
P24D3Reductant Heater B Sense Circuit4 ranked fixes
P263DReductant Heater Driver Performance4 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: