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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: oxygen sensor
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.214151.3111@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Date: 9 Oct 92 21:41:51 GMT
- References: <1992Oct6.141703.21791@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <28940@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Oct8.174659.9424@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <1992Oct8.174659.9424@news.cs.brandeis.edu> andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang) writes:
- >In the '87 Alfa, the sensor is farther downstream in a cooler area,
- >the replacement interval is 100k and to further guarantee its removal,
- >100K also happens to be the replacement interval for the catalytic
- >converter to which the sensor is mounted.
-
- 100K? the bosch 3-wire in my 87 alfa milano was dead by 60,000
- miles; the aftermarket 3-wire lasted about 35,000 miles.
-
- one reason why the sensor can be moved downstream is that the
- 3 wire has a built in heating element; this is what the additional
- two wires are for. in general, the 3 wire sensors become effective
- more quickly when you start a car.
-
- richard
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