Just wanted to kind of get a running list of everyone who has had an innovate wideband fail on them in a relatively short amount of time. There's another thread that alot of people started posting in but I want this thread to be specifically for making a list of everyone who has had one fail. I honestly think if there are enough people innovate should do something about it.

Anyway, I'll start. Mine failed on me after 5 months. It would be normal when i turned it on but then as soon as i would get on the throttle it would flash E 8, now it just does it all the time.

 

You are correct! These fail all the time! =D

All my friends that have them have also had them fail.

 

mine failed after 500 miles ,what a piece.....

 

1. DanielW: 5 months
2. blueper4mancez: 500 miles
3. VIZAGE: 8 days, second sensor 2 days, sent unit back and still pending

 

good idea on formating

 

I had 2 of them fail on me in the last 8 months. I thought this would be a great unit considering its price tag when compared to other widebands but not... i'm switching to the AEM!

 

After 1000 miles of driving around on a sensor, and one tuning session sensor crapped out. Second sensor has been fine for 7000 miles now. No other issues.

 

I had an LM-1 physically break. The LM1 is the big one. This was a number of years ago. You plug it into the cigarette lighter and then plug the power adaptor into the LM-1, it's like the little plug that a laptop computer uses. Well the plug in the LM-1 is not secured by anything, all that holds it on are the little tiny bits of solder that hold it to the board. I could tell it was flimsy so i was very careful with it, but it still broke off in a matter of about 2 weeks (moving the LM1 from one car to another to tune, etc).

 

keep em coming fellas

 

seems everyone that had problem with this never reach over a year. I have mine for over 5 months and still rock solid... Hope it last...

Do you guys all have LM1? how many had problem with LC1

 

I clocked over 20k miles on the one in my Subi before I changed it due to all of the horror stories of them failing and figured I just change out the sensor as part of my preventative maintenance schedule... I still have my old O2 sensor and it works fine...

Seems like their may have had been a bad batch of O2 sensors and if they fail, they fail quickly...

 

i can't say for sure but I'd be willing to bet that most guys have the LC1. the LM1 is pretty outdated, no one really wants a wideband the size of a toaster in their car these days.

 

damn, i was planning on picking up the lc-1 this week, but from seeing this thread..im thinking maybe ill have to go with the aem. although i hear the aem scrambles to much and has anywhere from a half second to almost a full second delay

 

I'm not a tuner so don't quote me on this but I'm thinking the innovate has a little bit of delay as well. Probably not anything close to a full second though. I woulud find that hard to imagine on any unit. It seems like that would make it really undesirable

 

I had the LC-1. Thing is that Innovate claims nothing may be even remotely wrong on there side. This was there words exactly to me. Sharif told me he's read threw the hole book, talked to his guys, and even question himself if they were being installed correctly. After further decision, he knows there installed right. Done everything the book stated. He stated that some go bad and some succeed that he has installed. I'm just going to take it with a grain of salt.

 

innovative, failed after a month. i tried recalibrating nothing seems to help

 

Mine failed yesterday...5 months later. I get an E-2 code.

 

Mine fail early to just get a new sensor,

 

I don't have this unit by my buddy has it on his S/C'ed Z, it never worked from the beginning and just threw error codes, sent it back and got a replacement. Worked fine after that.

 

How are you guys wiring the power to the O2 sensor? Optimally you want it powered only when the car is running, or a few seconds before at most. If you power it early (like with accessory power, listening to the radio for awhile), the heating element will have the O2 sensor hot and when the car finally cranks, cold water and fuel vapor may damage ("shock") the sensor. If you have it powered manually, keep in mind that running the car with the O2 sensor off can also foul it. This is data I've read off the support threads at the Innovate website and from literature on the Bosch O2 sensor. I decided to power my TurboXS sensor from the fuel pump relay in the IPDM.