Don't buy a cheap Chinese oxygen sensor

[Vp4ever]

or anything effin chinese.

I bought a $35.00 2 wire O2 sensor off Ebay & installed it yesterday.

My old sensor (a Bosch I think) faulted the dash light a few weeks ago for a few minutes then the light went out.
But, my fuel economy went thru the roof so being broke & a cheepskate I bought the cheapest one on Ebay from "Posts from Sydney"

The Cheap POS reads 0.442 volts continuously so it doesn't trip the dash light (clever)
In WinALDL it comes up code 13.

off to Ripco for $93

 

[delcowizzid]

was it plug and play or you have to wire it in

 

[Immortality]

Can get genuine O2 sensors on ebay for reasonable prices.

 

[delcowizzid]

i have a $15 china special in one side of the vx its still going better than the old stock dead one in the other side LOL been in there 100000k

 

[Vp4ever]

plug n play. Easy to fit. Hardest part was removing the old one.

now I'm having a tete a tete with the with the supplier on ebay. effed if I'm going to wear the cost of it

 

[EYY]

Does your multimeter measure/display quickly enough to show the waves in voltage?

 

[Vp4ever]

Does your multimeter measure/display quickly enough to show the waves in voltage?

meybe ... should do. measure where?

 

[Jxfwsf]

Same as Delco above, installed a $17 china special in one of my cars couple of years ago and it's still working properly.

Wouldn't pay $35 for a cheapie, you can get bosch or ntk off ebay for $40-$50 so no point.

 

[Vp4ever]

I took the chinese one out today & put the old delco back in. It is showing an output & variation so it's working.

The chinese one definitly not working. So not my wiring loom. Looking at the cheap one, the pins are much thinner. Maybe they're not making a good connection.

The seller is sending me a replacement so I'll see how that goes.

 

[Vp4ever]

Got the replacement yesterday & fitted it today.

Not working.

I think the it must be the pins are not making contact in the connector so I'll get a connector from the wreckers & try that.

Anyone got any others suggestions or seen this before?