MechanicDB
Fault Family System: Network (U-Codes) 76 SAE Codes

Vehicle Comm Bus Lettered Fault

Diagnostic & Technical Explanation
U0028 covers the SAE-generic Vehicle Communication Bus letters A through J that individual manufacturers assign to whichever CAN or serial segment they wire into a given platform, so the letter itself carries no fixed meaning -- the diagnosis is the same twisted-pair wiring check regardless of which letter is reported. These codes flag a specific electrical condition on that segment: a fully open bus, a marginal performance fault, or a wire pinned high, low, open, or shorted to its counterpart conductor. Because the letter only identifies which OEM-defined segment failed, the repair path always starts with locating that segment in the platform-specific wiring diagram before testing.

These 76 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 76 times.

Codes in this family (76)

CodeDefinitionRepair coverage
U0028Vehicle Communication Bus A4 ranked fixes
U0029Vehicle Communication Bus A Performance4 ranked fixes
U0030Vehicle Communication Bus A (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0031Vehicle Communication Bus A (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0032Vehicle Communication Bus A (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0033Vehicle Communication Bus A (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0034Vehicle Communication Bus A (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0035Vehicle Communication Bus A (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0036Vehicle Communication Bus A (-) shorted to Bus A (+)4 ranked fixes
U0037Vehicle Communication Bus B4 ranked fixes
U0038Vehicle Communication Bus B Performance4 ranked fixes
U0039Vehicle Communication Bus B (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0040Vehicle Communication Bus B (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0041Vehicle Communication Bus B (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0042Vehicle Communication Bus B (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0043Vehicle Communication Bus B (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0044Vehicle Communication Bus B (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0045Vehicle Communication Bus B (-) shorted to Bus B (+)4 ranked fixes
U0046Vehicle Communication Bus C4 ranked fixes
U0047Vehicle Communication Bus C Performance4 ranked fixes
U0048Vehicle Communication Bus C (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0049Vehicle Communication Bus C (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0050Vehicle Communication Bus C (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0051Vehicle Communication Bus C (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0052Vehicle Communication Bus C (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0053Vehicle Communication Bus C (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0054Vehicle Communication Bus C (-) shorted to Bus C (+)4 ranked fixes
U0055Vehicle Communication Bus D4 ranked fixes
U0056Vehicle Communication Bus D Performance4 ranked fixes
U0057Vehicle Communication Bus D (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0058Vehicle Communication Bus D (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0059Vehicle Communication Bus D (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0060Vehicle Communication Bus D (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0061Vehicle Communication Bus D (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0062Vehicle Communication Bus D (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0063Vehicle Communication Bus D (-) shorted to Bus D (+)4 ranked fixes
U0064Vehicle Communication Bus E4 ranked fixes
U0065Vehicle Communication Bus E Performance4 ranked fixes
U0066Vehicle Communication Bus E (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0067Vehicle Communication Bus E (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0068Vehicle Communication Bus E (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0069Vehicle Communication Bus E (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0070Vehicle Communication Bus E (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0071Vehicle Communication Bus E (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0072Vehicle Communication Bus E (-) shorted to Bus E (+)4 ranked fixes
U0080Vehicle Communication Bus F4 ranked fixes
U0081Vehicle Communication Bus F Performance4 ranked fixes
U0082Vehicle Communication Bus F + Open4 ranked fixes
U0083Vehicle Communication Bus F + Low4 ranked fixes
U0084Vehicle Communication Bus F + High4 ranked fixes
U0085Vehicle Communication Bus F - Open4 ranked fixes
U0086Vehicle Communication Bus F - Low4 ranked fixes
U0087Vehicle Communication Bus F - High4 ranked fixes
U0088Vehicle Communication Bus F - Shorted to Bus F +4 ranked fixes
U0089Vehicle Communication Bus G4 ranked fixes
U008AVehicle Communication Bus G Performance4 ranked fixes
U008BVehicle Communication Bus G (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U008CVehicle Communication Bus G (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U008DVehicle Communication Bus G (+) High4 ranked fixes
U008EVehicle Communication Bus G (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U008FVehicle Communication Bus G (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0090Vehicle Communication Bus G (-) High4 ranked fixes
U0091Vehicle Communication Bus G (-) shorted to Bus G (+)4 ranked fixes
U0092Vehicle Communication Bus H4 ranked fixes
U0093Vehicle Communication Bus H Performance4 ranked fixes
U0094Vehicle Communication Bus H (+) Open4 ranked fixes
U0095Vehicle Communication Bus H (+) Low4 ranked fixes
U0096Vehicle Communication Bus H (+) High4 ranked fixes
U0097Vehicle Communication Bus H (-) Open4 ranked fixes
U0098Vehicle Communication Bus H (-) Low4 ranked fixes
U0099Vehicle Communication Bus H (-) High4 ranked fixes
U009AVehicle Communication Bus H (-) shorted to Bus H (+)4 ranked fixes
U009BVehicle Communication Bus I4 ranked fixes
U009CVehicle Communication Bus I Performance4 ranked fixes
U009DVehicle Communication Bus J4 ranked fixes
U009EVehicle Communication Bus J 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: