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2013 3.5l Barely runs, P0017 Code.

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My 2013 with about 125k miles is driving me nuts recently. Just replaced the water pump, yes that one, wheel bearings, pretty sure the CV joints are going out but more importantly, my car barely runs. It's been throwing a P0017 code for a Crank/Cam sensor (see photo). I thought, okay, cheap enough just to buy them and be done with it. So I replaced 2 of the cam sensors and the crank sensor. Turns out there's 4 cam sensors?? Can't find ANY info online about them, when I bought them they said there's only 2.

So I double checked the wires for the cam phasers, unplugged them and the battery hoping to reset something, worked for a little bit at idle but then when I revved up, take a look at the video in the link to see what happened there.

The timing components were in really good shape when I looked with the engine cover off, the teeth were marked and replaced in the exact same order as they came off, it shouldn't be a timing jump issue. Also this water pump repair was done back in October, the car started acting up in December.

Any help would be appreciated, need to get it running for Christmas, thanks for any info anyone has.

Please see attached video for the exact noise.

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I’d say that’s related to the water pump replacement / timing. Even though Oct - Dec had no problem, it could be something that was progressive and came to a head after a couple months.


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Good luck!! Hopefully, that’s all the issue was.


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Thanks for the update and words of caution. That should do the trick. Might even last permanently..


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Thanks for the update. Good luck.


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