P2A7D: Alternative Fuel Hydraulic Pressure Sensor Circuit High
What to do
The car will run on petrol. On a liquid-injection system this sensor is what guarantees the fuel stays liquid, so the car will not use gas without it — that refusal is deliberate rather than a fault to work around.
What this code means
The circuit for the system hydraulic pressure sensor is faulty.
A hydraulic fuel pump on a gas system means this is a liquid injection installation, which is a different and more sophisticated thing from the vapour systems the rest of this range describes.
Ordinary LPG conversions vaporise the fuel and inject it as a gas into the inlet manifold. That works, and it costs a little power — gas displaces air, so the engine breathes less of it. Liquid injection keeps the fuel liquid all the way to the injector and sprays it into the port, which recovers that power and actually cools the incoming charge as it flashes to vapour.
The price is that liquid LPG must be kept above its boiling point pressure the whole way, or it vaporises in the line and the injectors deliver nothing. That is what the hydraulic pump is for — it raises tank pressure by several bar so the fuel stays liquid regardless of temperature.
And it is why this hardware has its own pressure sensors and its own select valves. The system has to know it is maintaining that margin continuously, because losing it does not degrade fuelling gradually — the fuel flashes to vapour and delivery collapses at once, usually under sustained load on a hot day, which is exactly when nobody wants it.
These are less common installations, mostly factory or high-end aftermarket, and they need an installer familiar with liquid systems specifically. A workshop used to vapour conversions may not recognise the hardware.
This is the pressure the injectors actually see, where P2A75 watches what the pump produces. The difference between the two is the whole diagnosis when delivery fails: a pump making pressure into a system that is not holding it means a leak or a stuck valve, and the reverse means the pump.
At or above the upper limit.
Likely causes
Start here
- Faulty alternative fuel pressure sensor · specialist
- Corroded or loose connector · specialist
- Open circuit in sensor wiring · specialist
Less common
- Damaged wiring harness · specialist
- Failed sensor reference voltage supply · specialist
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