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P0340 Diagnostic Trouble Code Discussion for May 2010

CMP Sensor Circuit Malfunction


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Trouble Ticket Help Requests for DTC P0340
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2000 Ford F-550 Super Duty XL 7.3L No Start VIN: 1FDAF56F4Y
P0340: Camshaft Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction. This truck has exibited a long crank hard start issue for about a year the cust has not wanted to diag. Yesterday he called and said the truck started to run bad and then stalled and would not restart, so he towed it in. I have checked a lot of things and no c...
May 05, 2010
2000 Ford F-550 Super Duty XL 7.3L No Start VIN: 1FDAF56F4Y
P0340: Camshaft Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction. This truck has exibited a long crank hard start issue for about a year the cust has not wanted to diag. Yesterday he called and said the truck started to run bad and then stalled and would not restart, so he towed it in. I have checked a lot of things and no c...
May 06, 2010
1995 Mitsubishi Mirage S 1.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: JA3AA26A6S
P0340: cam sensor. Well this is driving me nuts, it came in with code po340 cam sensor signal. Couldn't get it to act up so suggested maby a bad sensor in dist. cust showed up two weeks later with code reset and a new dist., said put it in , well needless to say code came back a...
May 06, 2010
1997 Chevrolet K1500 Suburban LS 5.7L No Start VIN: 1GNFK16R0V
P0340: CMP Sensor Circuit Malfunction. Vehicle came in with code 340 cam shaft position sensor. Replaced same. When I went to start the engine it sounded as if it was 180 out of time backfiring through Throttle Body. Checked with Solis pro no additional codes rechecked all connections. Un pluged cr...
May 10, 2010
1997 Chrysler Concorde LX 3.5L No Start VIN: 2C3HD56F9U
P0340: No Camshaft Sensor Signals At PCM. Is There a way to check to see if when the belt broke if it bent a valve? Alldata says it is a interference motor
May 10, 2010
2002 Nissan Sentra GXE 1.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3N1CB51D12
P0340: Camshaft Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction. ... at this pitiful car, and we are hoping to be the last. Originally the customer was driving the vehicle coming hme from a road trip and noticed it started running rough with some lack of power. MIL was on. Next day started the car and it ran very poorly and...
May 13, 2010
2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser 2.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 3C4FY48B13
P0340: Camshaft Position Sensor Circuit Malfunction. Hi thanks in advance.this has had an engine swap and not only does it have this cam code but also i see a no bus in the instument cluster.now i have know in the past when i see this the pcm is done.but the thing i want to know is if this engine is like some ch...
May 17, 2010
1998 BMW 740i 4.4L Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: WBAGF8323W
P0340: Camshaft sensor malfunction. ... stalls. Stated vehicle will crank no start for a few min before finally restarting. Scanned for codes found P0340 CMP malfunction. Not being used to seeing cars stall from cam sensor problems first thing I did was unplug cam sensor with vehicle running. Ve...
May 19, 2010
2001 Volkswagen Jetta GLS 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: 3VWSG69M01
P0340: camshaft position sensor A circuit bank 1 vw 16724. This is a chain drive vr6. not worried about the cat code right now. car came in from the used car lot and they said "put a cam sensor in it" we did and still have the cel tripping as soon as the car starts. Went ahead and did a little more looking. fo...
May 20, 2010
2007 Ford F-150 XL 4.6L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTRF12W27
P0340: cam pos. sensor. Thanks for the help in advance, This vehicle came from another shop with po 340 cam sensor prob. they put a new cam sensor in it ,checking my scanner as soon as you crank the truck my solus shows cam sensor failure. I pulled the timing cover and sure enough th...
May 26, 2010
1999 GMC Savana 1500 5.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G53678563
P0340: CMP Sensor Circuit Malfunction. cant seem to fix p0340 sets right away have replaced dist due to worn cam gear, Have good square pattern at pcm with scope reluctant to replace same old story $$$ pcm looks rough white powder but pins look ok
May 28, 2010
1999 GMC Savana 1500 5.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G53678563
P0340: CMP Sensor Circuit Malfunction. cant seem to fix p0340 sets right away have replaced dist due to worn cam gear, Have good square pattern at pcm with scope reluctant to replace same old story $$$ pcm looks rough white powder but pins look ok
May 31, 2010