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P2C37

Cold Start Engine Coolant Pump Performance

During cold start, the engine coolant pump does not produce the expected flow. Pump aging combined with high cold viscosity, or pump-disable strategy malfunction.

  • Check engine light: Yes
  • Emissions related: No
  • Repair difficulty: hard

Common causes

Ordered by how often each turns out to be the cause.

  • Pump output degraded with ageCommon
  • Cold coolant viscosity too highPossible

Parts involved

  • Engine Coolant Pump
  • Engine Coolant Loop

P2C37 is a generic OBD-II code defined by SAE J2012. Exact wording and diagnostic procedure vary by manufacturer and model. Code definitions are drawn from the public-domain OBDex dataset; the workshop notes are our own.