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Old Aug 6, 2011, 01:35 PM
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Factory o2 sensor life?

Car is an 06 ix. Finally got my wideband working today, and noticed at idle its logging in the low to mid 11's.

I then remembered about 6 months ago I shut off a p0031 code in the periphery bits. I then logged my u2 voltage and found it is purporting almost a constant 0.05 volts at idle.

I believe that is almost for sure a dead sensor.

How sensitive are these cars to soldering in a "universal" sensor? The cars I've been tuning for years will a most never work when you do that.

$300 for a new factory sensor is a real kick in the nuts.

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Old Aug 7, 2011, 08:11 PM
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No thoughts?
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Just buy a used one. I've seen one or two for sale on here or SocalEvo.
Old Aug 8, 2011, 08:41 AM
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here u go bro....

http://www.rockauto.com/
Old Aug 8, 2011, 10:32 AM
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i know where to get the sensor, thats not the issue.

the question was should a factory piece really be dead at 50k miles, and are the cars agreeable to having a universal soldered in, as i prefer bosch over denso personally.
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Sometimes sensors just crap out. You can get a plug in 02 for 46 bucks here.

http://www.partsgeek.com/catalog/200...en_sensor.html

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have you checked if the voltage output matches wideband readings?
bosch says heated sensors are good until at least 100k miles.
should you buy one, i'd buy oem style denso, chances are it's the same that the one which came from the mitsu factory.
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Like I said above, sideband shows 11's at idle. I believe the reference voltage on the narrowband should be something like 1-3 volts? I found it last night but can't recall exactly.

Bought a den so sensor at auozone...next task is figuring out how the he'll to get in there and change it.




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