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

Trans Module Communication Circuit

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
Code P085A (Gear Shift Control Module B Communication Circuit) sets when the ECM cannot communicate reliably with the TCM or a separate gear-shift control module over the vehicle network. Causes are a damaged bus wire, a corroded module connector, low module supply voltage, or an internal module fault preventing it from participating on the network.

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
P085AGear Shift Control Module B Communication Circuit4 ranked fixes
P085BGear Shift Control Module B Communication Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P085CGear Shift Control Module B Communication Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P085DGear Shift Control Module A Performance4 ranked fixes
P085EGear Shift Control Module B Performance4 ranked fixes
P0860Gear Shift Control Module A Communication Circuit4 ranked fixes
P0861Gear Shift Control Module A Communication Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P0862Gear Shift Control Module A Communication Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P0863TCM Communication Circuit4 ranked fixes
P0864TCM Communication Circuit Range/Performance4 ranked fixes
P0865TCM Communication Circuit Low4 ranked fixes
P0866TCM Communication Circuit High4 ranked fixes
P273CGear Shift Control Module A Supply Voltage Low4 ranked fixes
P273DGear Shift Control Module A Supply Voltage High4 ranked fixes
P273EGear Shift Control Module A Over Temperature4 ranked fixes
P2DA1Gear Shift Control Module B Supply Voltage Low4 ranked fixes
P2DA2Gear Shift Control Module B Supply Voltage High4 ranked fixes
P2DA3Gear Shift Control Module B Overtemperature4 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: