aem wideband toes up!!
02-21-2006, 10:12 PM
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aem wideband toes up!!
ok, my aem wideband just bit the dust right before i ripped my car apart again. on first start up it will work a little, then with in a minute or 2 it just reads 14.7 the whole time no matter what throttle position. now i'm heading to san diego thurs morn and want to fix it before i go. so new gauge or just new 02 sensor. my guess is bad 02, but neither are very old at all.
02-21-2006, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by overZealous1
ok, my aem wideband just bit the dust right before i ripped my car apart again. on first start up it will work a little, then with in a minute or 2 it just reads 14.7 the whole time no matter what throttle position. now i'm heading to san diego thurs morn and want to fix it before i go. so new gauge or just new 02 sensor. my guess is bad 02, but neither are very old at all.
Did you check all your connections? The sensor should last for at least 20K miles....
02-22-2006, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by booger
My AEM o2 sensor lasted less than 5000 miles . I bought a new sensor and sold the dam thing . I like the Zetronix I have now , it reads into the 9's
weird...pretty much all widebands on the market use the same bosch sensors, so I don't see why one would be more failure prone than another. My AEM has been in for over 5000 miles and I haven't had any issues at all. Sorry to hear about your problems...glad you're happy with the Zetronix.
02-22-2006, 07:28 AM
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they replaced my sensor after it went bad, less than 5k miles also, went with zeitronix, had it for about 13k miles, sensor went bad, their customer service sucked bad. AEM returned all emails within a few minutes, Zeitronix (if they even returned an email) would take days and offer no solution to help me out at all. Im using the innovate wideband now, 5k miles on it so far and no problems whatsoever
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02-22-2006, 07:50 AM
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ya mine didn't even last for 2000 miles!! all connections are good and no burned wires. was hoping someone had run into this exact thing and could offer an exact fix, as i am leaving on a 2300 mile trip tomorrow morning and have no time to diagnose or troubleshoot. hate to waste the money on a new sensor if the actual gauge itself is bad.
02-22-2006, 07:58 AM
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Had my AEM for 8K miles with no problem. Also have a PLX-R500 for 5K miles no problems either.
So you should change the sensor every 20K miles or just wait till it goes bad if it even goes bad?
So you should change the sensor every 20K miles or just wait till it goes bad if it even goes bad?
02-22-2006, 08:05 AM
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if your car is running rich it will lower the live of a sensor, fuel on the sensor is what kills it. with what your sensor is doing that is a sign of the sensor going bad, exactly what my zeitronix did. go ahead and call aem and see if they will help you out with getting a new one. I talked to jason at AEM when i had to go through this. Goodluck with it.
02-23-2006, 09:44 AM
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The earlier AEM's seem to be more failure prone. I sent one back in for repair, and they said it wasnt a bad sensor, but rather, some bad firmware programming or something. I've had several customers AEM's go bad, so we started recommending the Innovates, which are better every way, IMHO. Thinner, larger numbers, less jumpiness, highly accurate, self checking, calibration, programmable, etc..etc..
02-23-2006, 09:53 AM
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yea, everything sharif said, plus now you can log AFR with with just the lc-1 / xd-1 unit with the new logworks 2.0, rpm you have to add the lma-1 or the new unit they have coming out later on. i really like the color changing feature of the dial. display numbers are very easy to read as well.
02-23-2006, 09:57 AM
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