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Am in a huge pickle and could really use some help from the great people of this forum.

Am supposed to be heading up to Whistler B.C. for our annual family reunion on Thursday night and my car is totally dead now (glad it happened before of course instead of on the way up there ).

I will explain...after my car intermittently threw the infamous P0335 trouble code (CKP - Crank Position Sensor error) for the past couple months, going in and out of limp mode, it finally died for good the other night and it will not start now. I have read several posts (have literally searched and read for hours on the subject) on the subject and it would appear many have suffered terribly from this one. Going in and replacing the crank sensor (very involved by the way, must remove crank pulley and belts -- that alone is pretty involved, especially if you don't have all the tools to perform that maneuver) and all that it entails and then discovering their car is just as broken with the new sensor as it was with the old sensor. Also read that for the actual sensor to die is incredibly rare (one master Honda tech said he had never seen one actually die); and that it is more common for there to be a short in one of the sensor wires, a bad connection (dirty), or an issue with the ECU (resolution by replacing ECU).

I am curious to know first of all if any of you have ever had to navigate through this quandry before and if so what finally brought resolution to the problem. Also curious to know how one might go about testing the continuity of the sensor (Pin 85 on the ECU I believe) all the way back to the mother ship, the ECU.

Has anyone EVER found resolution to this issue by actually replacing the crank sensor itself?

<timing belt was changed in 2009; I know some will want to know if it was recently changed and if that is the cause>

Thanks for your help guys!

 
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Yours look like this?

Where I'm at, it's been common to see the code when water or coolant has entered the connector body and corroded the wire terminals in the harness connector. Look real closely, are there any "greenies"?

Also, (depending on the engine) if the wire harness was left untucked from the timing cover the alternator belt cuts into it.

 
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I'm having the same problem. When the CPK sensor is connected, then the car stalls out immediately after the engine is started. If I disconnect the CPK sensor, the car runs normally, but I get the DTC code P0335. So I figured that the CPK sensor was bad, so I changed it out (and yes, went through that huge process to do it). But now that I have the new one in there, the same problem exists.

What else might be causing the code to be thrown, if not a bad sensor?