Oxygen Sensor

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:17 pm

Anyone ever sourced one locally for a resonable price? Gotta replace mine & not really keen to part with $250 to Mitsi Aus...

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:35 pm

what were the syptoms of when it went i have a feeling mine has gone too

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:41 pm

Idle is a bit funny & it pings pretty bad when under load (low rpm)

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:47 pm

Oh, and fuel ecomony is horrific!

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:50 pm

I got a universal one from fleabay (UK) for twenty quid delivered. Quite a few UK cars are wearing these now and they work fine.

You need a four wire one like this one http://cgi.ebay.com.au/OXYGEN-O2-SENSOR ... dZViewItem and it takes about 20 minutes to fit.

HTH

Arashi

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:53 pm

Storm wrote:I got a universal one from fleabay (UK) for twenty quid delivered. Quite a few UK cars are wearing these now and they work fine.

You need a four wire one like this one http://cgi.ebay.com.au/OXYGEN-O2-SENSOR ... dZViewItem and it takes about 20 minutes to fit.

HTH

Arashi

Sensational Arashi, love your work

So you just cut the original plug off & rewire into it or just wire the new sensor into the cars socket?

frozenwaffles · Post by **frozenwaffles** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:57 pm

mayan at maytech fitted a new bosch one onto my car. was $160 for the sensor...

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:01 pm

Yeah NGK do 'em as well for about the same price by the looks of it... but this universal one on Ebay for $55 is lookin' good about now.

noccers · Post by **noccers** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:45 pm

Bennoz wrote:Idle is a bit funny & it pings pretty bad when under load (low rpm)

Hm, I thought my car just needed a tune but now that you bring this up I begin to wonder. How can I diagnose it for sure? My fuel economy has dropped significantly over the past 3 weeks.

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:13 pm

noccers wrote:
Bennoz wrote:Idle is a bit funny & it pings pretty bad when under load (low rpm)
Hm, I thought my car just needed a tune but now that you bring this up I begin to wonder. How can I diagnose it for sure? My fuel economy has dropped significantly over the past 3 weeks.

Take it to your local Mitsubishi dealer & get them to hook it up to the matrix...

Thats what I did today

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:25 pm

Mine starts but idle goes from rought back up to normal and when i rev it sound shocking also the engine light is on ?!?!

what do u think ?

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:31 pm

barfy wrote:Mine starts but idle goes from rought back up to normal and when i rev it sound shocking also the engine light is on ?!?!

what do u think ?

Worry!

I would run a biagnostics check on it ASAP/

bigpitty1 · Post by **bigpitty1** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:05 pm

I replaced mine a month ago, I got it from repco for $113, it was a universal one that was to fit a V6 galant.

Post by **Bennoz** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:26 pm

Well I got one. Paid a little more cause I needed it today. Same one as you I think Bigpitty - to suit Galant 6A12. My local Auto One (love that shop

) were kind enough to get it in for me on the same day, cost me $88.

For anyone whos interested, its a ACA brand, Part Number: OX204

If anyone wants a DIY let me know, I'll be swapping it out tomorrow.

Toohey · Post by **Toohey** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:35 am

Hey bennoz, do you have any information on the swap? I need to do mine I think...

onnzo · Post by **onnzo** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:26 pm

Make sure you blast it with wd40 as soon as you can - for a few days preferably!

The FTO one shouldnt be too bad as it wouldnt get too hot. On on my old turbo lancer) I had to heat the thing up with a blow torch and used a 4 meter breaker bar to get it off! I ended up taking off the manifold.

Used a small one at first and it wouldnt budge. Kept having to find pipes until I got the biggest longest steel pipe I could find in the garage!

Mike

Post by **Bennoz** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:21 am

I hear ya! She was on REAL tight. Fortunately it was only about 18 months ago I had my exhaust done so they had to remove & reinstall it then - so she wasnt to badly burnt in.

Now Im finding its only cured half the problem... the other sensor (the one behind the cat) is about gone too! When I swap it out I'll do a full guide. Apart from getting them out its not a hard job. Using a generic replacement, you do have to cut the plug off the factory one & solder it to the new sensor, but the wire colours are standardized so you know what to solder where.

Toohey · Post by **Toohey** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:02 pm

can you tell me where to start looking to pull the sensor off the exhaust? I had a quick look and couldn't see it. Bennoz, the sensor you picked up works fine? I'll try to get my hands on one.

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:30 pm

Look under the car from under the drivers door - you'll see them in the exhaust, 1 in front of the cat converter & 1 behind. When I swap the second one out I'll tell you if they are both good to buy - cause at this stage its difficult to tell having only swapped one out.

Toohey · Post by **Toohey** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:02 am

Thanks heaps!!