05 Caravan 2.2L P0016-CRANKSHAFT/CAMSHAFT TIMING MISALIGNMENT

[AFMarksman]

I'm in the Air Force an deployed overseas. My wife is back in Tucson with our Caravan. She got the check engine light and a few minutes later the van started running rough. She called a friend of ours to help. He took the van to Autozone and they ran the code. It was P0016-CRANKSHAFT/CAMSHAFT TIMING MISALIGNMENT. He replaced the sensor and the van ran fine for about another 20 minutes and gave her the same problems again. What should I do? Thanks! Dave 2005 Caravan 2.2L

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[AFMarksman]

Originally Posted by AFMarksman

I'm in the Air Force and deployed overseas. My wife is back in Tucson with our Caravan. She got the check engine light and a few minutes later the van started running rough. She called a friend of ours to help. He took the van to Autozone and they ran the code. It was P0016-CRANKSHAFT/CAMSHAFT TIMING MISALIGNMENT. He replaced the sensor and the van ran fine for about another 20 minutes and gave her the same problems again. What should I do? Thanks!

Dave

2005 Caravan 2.2L

ETA for spelling

[master tech]

Hi Dave.You may need to take the van to a repair shop and have the transmission removed. Thats because the flex plate cracks causing the windows for the crank sensor not to line up....... misalignment code,or the new sensor you brought is defectived.

[92dak5.24x4]

i read that if you want to be sure it's a bad flex plate and find after pulling the trans that it wasn't. it was posted to use a dual trace oscilliscope, if the patterns don't line up, much better chance it's indeed broken. as stated the sensor you bought is defective, but if you had the problem before replacing the sensor, odds are not a sensor issue, but yes many people have had numerous bad sensors in a row but thats the rare exception.