Afternoon all...with the dreaded Emissions Warning Light coming on and a dodgy sensor being diagnosed, is it a pita to change the Lambda sensor yourself or does it involve hours of fiddling with bolts, skinning your knuckles and generally swearing like a brickie - or is it a relatively simple job?   I can't find too much out there on DIY Lambda sensor replacement...

 

Bit surprised that the sensor has failed as only just over 50K on the clock and it's not exactly ragged on a daily basis...

 

Thanks all!

You should get your Engine code off your V5 or something and report back.

I've got a basic OBD, in work at the moment but it was a P130 something...which I've checked as a sensor failure apparently?

15 hours ago, PlasticScouser said:

I've got a basic OBD, in work at the moment but it was a P130 something...which I've checked as a sensor failure apparently?

Just because a diagnostic tool says a sensor is ‘faulty’ does not mean it’s faulty.

 

there is a huge amount more to diagnosis than just plugging a code reader in.

 

Before considering replacing a sensor you need to find out if it’s telling the truth and giving a erroneous value because there is a fault somewhere else or if the sensor is actually faulty.