I was driving on my way home from work today and the check engine light came on. i checked the codes and came up with p01340, camshaft position sensor circuit failure bank 1/1. any ideas what this code mean? do i have to just replace the sensor?

 

no ideas?

 

The owners manual will be helpful in this instance.

 

For you ECU to know when to fire each cylinder, it needs to know what position your cams/engine are at. Otherwise, the engine could fire the coil when the car is on the exhaust stroke, thus mis-firing..


I'm thinking Bank 1/1 means that the side of the engine w/ the #1 cylinder's Cam Angle Sensor is the side to start looking at.. I don't believe the CAS are hard to change either.. They may be a little pricey though.. I haven't had to do one on my car yet...




JT

 

A lot of people seem to have the code randomly appear and there sometimes is no problem.

I'd clear the code, drive the car gently for a couple days and see if the light returns, then look into replacing the sensor.

 

that damn code still gives me nightmares..... i had that along with a random misfire code a few months ago. after two new sensors the code was still there and there were no breaks in the harness, turns out it was a bad regulator so i had the alternator rebuilt and it was all good.

i'm not saying this is your problem, so i would reset the pcm and see if it pops back up. if it does, just get a new sensor and if that fails you might be in the same boat as me