home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!rpi!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!psinntp!psinntp!balltown!welty
- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Subject: Re: oxygen sensor
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.210906.18481@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <1aqrk1INNads@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <BvpJI4.BDD@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <26055@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:09:06 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- In article <26055@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
- >In rec.autos.tech, dbowman@warp (Don A. Bowman) writes:
- >>The oxygen sensor is a fine platinum thing in the exhaust. It degrades
- >>slowly, and will not suddenly fail. I would replace it as it is important to
- >>your emissions. It shouldn't be expensive at all.
-
- >Although I agree with you about the technical aspects, mine was $96.
- >(And I got a 10% discount)
-
- o2 sensor prices are a very strange deal. while there are some bizarre
- o2 sensors out there, by and large most of them fall into two categories:
- 1 wire bosch type, and 3 wire bosch type (there are aftermarket sensors that
- emulate the bosch sensors.) as near as i can tell, all 1 wire and all 3 wire
- sensors are basically equivalent except for the connector on the end of the
- wire, and for the fact that some have slightly quicker response and longer
- lives than others (the bosch lasting the longest, and being the highest
- quality.)
-
- back when bosch was all you could get, many auto makers gouged on prices, and
- bosch played along. now that universals are available (they have 10" or 12"
- tails, and you cut the old sensor wires out and graft in the new sensor,
- using the original connector), bosch has responded by coming out with their
- own universal one wire; they've not come out with their own universal
- three wire yet. the prices for the bosch universal one wire is comparable
- to other comparable aftermarket universals.
-
- since bosch hasn't come out with a three wire universal yet, here's the
- trick: go to a ford dealer, and get a 5.0L mustang 3 wire. it will work,
- it's really a bosch, and it's relatively cheap.
-
- cheers,
- richard
- --
- richard welty 518-393-7228
- welty@cabot.balltown.cma.com
- ``if you can read this, mario, you're too close''
- -- bumper sticker seen on a CART safety truck
-