Scania EMS DTC 5938 Electric throttle M42, wake-up fault

EMS Engine Management System · Scania

Code 5938 (decimal). Some diagnostic tools show it in hexadecimal as 001732.

In short

The electric throttle has detected that distance during initiation is too great.

Applies to: EMS10

What does Scania EMS fault code 5938 mean?

How to fix Scania EMS fault code 5938?

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