Your car has a total of 4 O2 sensors. There are two mounted in the exhaust manifolds before the converters, those control the fuel mix for the engine. Then there are two more mounted behind the converters, those are there to monitor the converters in operation. The upstream two would give you lean/rich codes while the downstream ones give the codes like a P0420 or P0430 telling you that the converters are not operating. However, in most cases people see the related codes and replace the sensors, when the issue isn't the sensors but the parts they monitor. That is why scan tools are needed so much these days, they can tell you what the sensors are "seeing" in the exhaust stream and let you test them some to determine what the fault really is.
Do you have a sensor related code?
Thursday, July 13th, 2023 AT 5:52 PM