Left rear wheel speed sensor circuit. Seen in 5 real diagnostics across 3 workshops.
What the code tells you on its own
- System. Chassis. Braking, ABS/ESP, steering, suspension and wheel-speed sensing.
- Functional group. ABS, brakes and stability
- Failure type byte, when the tool sends one. 07 (Mechanical failure), 15 (Circuit short to battery or open). Scan tools report the same fault as C0037 and as C0037xx, where xx is a sub-type. They are one fault, and whether the sub-type appears depends on the tool and the protocol rather than on the car.
What we see when C0037 turns up
Measured across the diagnostics run through Wrenchlane by independent workshops, not taken from a reference table. Sightings span July 2026 to August 2026.
- 5 diagnostics carried this code.
- 3 separate workshops met it, so this is not one shop seeing the same fault repeatedly.
- 60% of the time it arrived with no symptom description at all, meaning the technician had nothing but the code to work from.
- Most often on Volvo, which is where we have seen it most rather than a claim about the fleet at large.
What this page does not tell you
A code names a symptom the car noticed, not the part that failed. C0037 on one vehicle and the same code on another can have different causes, and the counts above describe what independent workshops brought to us rather than how common the fault is across all cars. Getting from the code to the cause needs the vehicle: its make, model, engine and what it is actually doing.
Run C0037 against the car in front of you. Enter the code and the symptoms and get ranked probable causes for that specific vehicle, with the checks in the order worth doing them. Free account, no card.
Other abs, brakes and stability codes
- C0031, Left front wheel speed sensor circuit
- C0034, Right front wheel speed sensor circuit
- C0050, not individually documented
- C0061, not individually documented
- C0040, Right rear wheel speed sensor circuit
- C003A, not individually documented