Thread: 2E85 fault code
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      11-23-2018, 08:53 AM   #4
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Looks like to me the ECU is unable to communicate with the water pump, so the pump is running in a default mode at a constant speed to prevent the engine from overheating, which is why the coolant temperature is too low. This would be an unusual malfunction of the control electronics, that to my recollection no one has previously reported, but it is a reasonable assumption that the pump would be engineered in such a manner.

I think the pump codes are pretty accurate. When I first discovered there were water pump trouble codes in May of 2011, code 2E81 was specific as to the exact mileage the pump had trouble and the the exact amount of deviation the pump speed was off from the maximum of 250 RPM.
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