Has anyone taken a scantool to their Kona, and found a P0C17 DTC set? My cheap Actron flags it as "permanent", not sure what that means. It supposedly translates to "drive motor position resolver not learned". It appears to be completely harmless [if even true?] and doesn't show any warnings in the driver display. And the motor and controller seem to know the rotor position just fine, or I'm sure things would be obviously unhappy when driving. Hyundaitechinfo.com is rather unclear about it, and implies that it's a very minor tuning tweak that can be commanded to start by the "GDS" dealer diagnostic tool, and then the car's supposed to figure it out and perform the tuning by itself by simply driving around a bit. The techs at the local dealer never heard of it, and refuse to go pull codes from a new Kona on their lot to see if it has the same thing. There's a vague reference to Sonata hybrids with the same code, + https://www.hyundai-forums.com/threads/p0c17-code.657213/ _H*
permanent dtc is a hard code, means the fault can't be cleared until the problem is actually fixed. You shouldn't have any dtc come up at all, get the dealer to fix the problem irregardless if its symptomatic or not.
The story got a little more convoluted, with the folks at HKMC corporate calling one of my local dealers and running into a fairly sour attitude as far as customer-service. In a call later with a fairly apologetic GM, she suggested I bring the car in for a quick go on GDS and they'd try to get to the bottom of it. This time, they did their research ahead of time and went out to scan another car on the lot like I'd originally asked. GDS found *no* codes. It saw the missing VESS of course, and something about a weather receiver not present, but not a peep about any resolver calibration. So mystery solved, and obviously my old Actron scanner is useless on this car. _H*
