Emissions · Diagnostic trouble code

P0455

Evaporative emission system leak detected (gross leak)

What it means

In plain terms

Same monitor as P0442, but the system barely held any vacuum at all. A gross leak is usually something visibly disconnected rather than something subtly perished.

What sets it

The trigger condition

The EVAP monitor fails its decay test at the gross-leak threshold.

Generic SAE definition. Manufacturers extend and sometimes override these, so the enhanced code on the vehicle in front of you may be narrower than what is written here.

Common causes

4 things that set P0455.

This is the list every other P0455 page will give you. Read it, then read the part underneath it.

What P0455 gives you
  • Fuel cap missing or not sealing
  • EVAP hose disconnected or split
  • Vent valve stuck open
  • Damaged charcoal canister
4 candidates · no ranking · your call
What AceDx gives you
One ranked call
Named specifically enough to order the part, with a confidence number and the evidence printed underneath.
1 call · evidence attached · you can overrule it
A frequency ranking is about every vehicle that ever threw P0455. You are working on one of them.
The actual problem

That list is not a diagnosis. It is a to-do list you did not ask for.

Every one of those 4 causes is now a decision somebody in the bay has to make, under a clock, on a car a customer wants back today.

We haven’t published a verdict for P0455 yet.

We could mock one up. We’re not going to. A fabricated example of our own product’s output is exactly the kind of thing this page is criticizing. Verdicts appear here as the pilot produces them on real vehicles, with the evidence they actually stood on.

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