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First post to the forum so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but this forum seemed to have the most discussion about DTCs. Let me know if I should post this somewhere else. Bought my 2013 Hybrid a few months ago, just crossing the 10K miles and the indicator came on to get my oil changed. Crazy schedule with spring break so instead of going to dealer I just went to a local Firestone. I had noticed that in addition to the oil change warning there was also a yellow engine warning. I guessed that was just another indication to get the oil changed. Got the oil changed but the engine light was still on. I thought it might go off after a few minutes--that happened when the tire pressure light came on during a cold snap and I put some air in, light went away a few minutes later. But this time the light stayed on even when I got home 15 minutes later. Google brought me to this forum and I saw how to look up the DTC. But when I got to the screen it did have three codes, all three are marked as HIST rather than current. The three codes are: C15900 C46B86 F00316 I've seen some of them referenced on the forum without saying what they are. My question to the smart crowd here--I have two longish trips coming up in the next few days (at least 5 hours driving Thursday, then 3 hours driving on Friday and Sunday). Are these benign codes or do I need to worry? Thanks.

Since Saturday our FFH has been turning on the check engine light every few times we start the car and the ScanGauge reads the code as P06B8. According to dtcdecode.com this code means: "Internal Control Module Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) Error". Here is a link to their definition of the code. Has anyone else had this error? Does anyone have any ideas what it means? I have a long list of items for the dealer next time we bring the car in and I have added this to the list. Each time the code has appeared (three times so far) I have cleared it with the ScanGauge and then it has taken 10+ trips with no DTC before it appears again.

guys please help, I am thinking of buying 2012 ford fusion hybrid and the steering is way heavy and has no center feel to it since I took it. yesterday I went to scan codes it came up with this: U0100 CMDTCs lost communication with ECM/PCM A U2101 CMDTCs control module configuration incompatible and it has 2 fault codes for the PSCM-power steering control module . any body please help is it expensive to fix?? the car isn't under warranty,it has only 200miles on it. warranty has been cancelled due to an accident,i bought it that way... please have a look at the pics of the car when it was hit. im getting the car fixed.i have no idea what has been fixed or replaced . all I know that it is a brand new one and the doors have been replaced.

To make a short story long.... I went to my great Dealer today to get my axle Thrust Washers installed for the 'cracking' repair. I added a VHR that contained Dash Warnings my car has intermittently, regarding traction control and brakes. To that I threw in TSB 13-6-22 about check engine and various DTC warnings. Plus an oil/filer change and tire rotation. We then moseyed over to the Dealers little cafe and had our free breakfast, but got bored eventually. So, my great Dealer gave us an Enterprise '13 Ford Focus (Ugh!) to drive around during the day while they fixed the car. We soon tired of that funky Focus and got back to the Dealer about 2:30pm and I checked in with my great Service Advisor to find the Thrust Washers were in place and repair done, the oil changed* and tires rotated*. (*A free Dealer service perk, what a great Dealer) That's when the happy faces stopped. My dash warnings on the VHR showed a problem with the brake system getting an consistent error code. The Hybrid brake/eCVT Specialist went through the system and declared it working properly, except for the input DTC from the ICE. The car was moved over to another Service Bay (they have 50+ bays) and the 'Driveability' Specialist was told to find out why the brakes were getting a DTC from the ICE. There is such a thing as a 'Diagnostic Tree' (flow chart) that the Specialist follows and the Throttle Body sensor was sending codes to the brakes telling them something was wrong. The Specialist went down the Yes/No chart and ended up back where it started, no answer. He did this carefully 3 times, with another helper assisting, no joy. At this point the only thing that is allowed to be done is: Call THE FORD HELP LINE. It is now 4:30pm and we're getting cranky. Nothing can be done now, the Service Adviser cannot release the car to me because of the VHR's warning about the brakes. So, top this, we get another Enterprise rental car, I refuse the Ford Focus and end up with a '12 Fusion SE. That is two free rental cars in one day! Now, I live 75 miles from my GREAT Dealer and I mention that I am not happy paying for gas for the rental car because my car can't be repaired. Absolutely, my great Service Advisor says "don't worry about a thing, the car & gas are on us" - amazing, simply amazing. Now we're home, enjoyed driving the '12 Fusion and, hopefully, sometime tomorrow my car will be fixed. I can then go back on Wednesday and get it because if I don't it is the 4th of July weekend and I won't have it for a week. = BTW, a FFH Forum member stopped by the Dealership (his great Dealer too) this morning and we swapped stories about our cars, it was a pleasure. = But this makes me wonder, there are times when the car feels like it's dragging an anchor and the mpg's are low, like a steady 45 mph and getting 10mpg's. Could the brakes be affecting performance and causing something negative to happen? The car has had these brake warnings since the first month I owned it, a Dealer did a 'Hard System Reset' to clear the Dash Warnings then. I've had several since then that clear themselves after a re-start, with the last one happening a couple weeks ago. Strange...