P2453: Particulate Filter Pressure Sensor A Circuit Range/Performance
What to do
The hose check matters most on exactly this code — especially after any exhaust or filter work, when swapped hoses are the classic explanation for readings that make no sense.
What this code means
The filter pressure reading is electrically alive but implausible — the variant that catches this family's sinister failures, because a blocked hose or swapped pair produces a believable wrong number rather than a dead signal.
The free cross-checks: at idle with a warm engine the differential should be small and steady; engine off it should be zero; and it should climb with load. A reading that ignores the engine has convicted its plumbing. The stakes are P2452's — this number schedules regenerations.
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