timing Chain

Yeah something's not right there You press on the gas and his car doesn't move Is the car and drive does the car back up okay backing up is all electric no matter what the engines doing if it comes on while backing up It's the start charging the HV battery That's one way to know the car is working pretty normally you back up I have a driveway where I can back up I don't know 400 ft backing up about 50 ft in the morning the engine comes on I see it in the display and blue bars are displayed and it'll run for I don't know 40 50 seconds maybe I've already switched to drive but I may not have moved anywhere yet just sitting there and it'll run for about 60 seconds and then shut off then I can pull it into drive step on it and if I step on it far enough the engine cranks right up and the car is moving forward sounds like you may have other problems did you say you have the code for the timing being off what about the tensioner and what have you But $3,000 is way too much and you're mileage is pretty low but if oil changes haven't been diligent it's remotely possible You have the code for it so I'm guessing it must be so That's funny because I got four of them and I've never had that in the one NZ engine doesn't mean it can be so but it must take some doing or I'm really lucky and that I am not.

 

So you can see your display the miles per hour zero the transmission display and the gas gauge and the car is ready when all this happens and you step on the gas and it goes nowhere but it's in drive it doesn't shift to neutral?

 

No, it does not shift to neutral. I was stopped at a red light and panicking since it's a busy road and I didn't want to be stationary in the middle of the road, so I didn't examine the dash closely, but it appeared normal.

 

I did not try to back up, it didn't occur to me.

So DTC P0016 can only mean timing belt? There is no other interpretation?

 

That code means the two sensors are out of sync generally a stretched chain or a chain that's not able to be kept reasonably tight can cause this your mechanic should be able to pull the valve cover and roll everything up on the marks and see where you are at this mileage I find it hard to imagine but hey stranger things have happened people don't keep their cars like I do I don't know things just happen.

 

it could be the chain and/or tensioner. The tensioner is a simple ratcheting mechanism that uses oil pressure to keep the chain tight.

 

The real world interpretation of P0016 is that the ECM sees a problem with the cam timing. Period.

Could be the timing chain system. Could be the Variable Valve Timing system that adjusts the intake camshaft position.

I have seen P0016 set for VVT faults that "should have" set P0011 or P0012.

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Yes your guy will have to look at the whole system cam phasers whatever all that stuff any of it not working properly can set various and sundry codes involving the timing The chain tensioner would be something to have a look at things like that do fail they're external at your mileage is quite surprising to me but if everything's been kept really dirty and dark nasty oil and all of that it is possible and somewhat likely generally people don't keep these engines in those conditions It doesn't take that much oil etc it's easy to change most people just do it because they know it's like the blood in your body You need your kid needs to keep it clean and do the filtration like a good oil filter and oil in your car

 

very rare for the cam phaser to fail on gen2.. common ones are chain (P0016) and the vvt solenoid (P0011/P0012)