Hi guys,

Have had my Volvo for about 3 months now, and as of yesterday the check engine light came on. I took it to auto zone today to have it scanned and it came back with P0016, P0014, and P0017 codes.

Until today, the car ran perfectly. However it took 3 attempts to start the car today to drive it over the auto zone. The car has 41k miles and has been well taken care of. Any ideas on what could have suddenly caused the Check Engine Light and failure to start?

 

Your 8 or 9 year old car has only 41000 miles? That's about 5000 miles per year. Unusually low.

Cam and crank sensors rarely go bad. And codes don't mean a part is bad, it means the ECM does not like the signal from those parts. With those codes the first thing I would check is the camshaft timing. I am concerned that if the cam timing is off - something could be failing and making the belt "jump time". If something fails (idler pulley for instance) the belt comes off and bends all the valves. That's a 3 to 4 thousand dollar repair and I have fixed many low mileage Volvos with bent valves due to the belt coming off when you don't want it to. FYI - Timing belts are supposed to be changed at 120k or ten years

Do you have the capability to do that job? If not someplace very close? Do you have free towing just to be safe?

 

Thank you hoonk, appreciate your input.

Looks like my best bet is getting it towed to the mechanic as I’m not capable of evaluating something like this.

Will let you know what the mechanic has to say once the have a chance to take a look at it. Hopefully nothing too serious!