P38A Faked mot exhaust sensor

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The O2 sensor data looks wrong. They should be switching at similar rates, so maybe it's time to put new ones in ? All the other charts appear ok to me, but it's dificult to tell from the pictures.

As I said before it's generally not recommended, but try cleaning them with Carb Cleaner.

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From that graph, it appears that Bank-A is the bad one, however the Nanocom recording you share indicates Bank-B is not swinging through the correct range. This why we suggested swapping them over & cleaning the connector contacts.

They should normally swing from 0V to 1V on a Thor with Motronic ECU. As the engine revs go up, they swing more often.

How well they work depends on aging of the materials inside, but also on the supply voltage being correct. Bad contacts (i.e. high resistance) in the connectors can reduce the heater voltage, and hence impact how well the sensor works.
 
Sorry been off here for a while had other jobs on the go ie Narrowboat and 6 night’s work back to the car now got new sensor for the drivers side from rimmers part number MHK100940G got the old cats off the car today proper ball ache but done can anyone tell me what the part number is for the near side sensor I’m thinking may aswell replace them both for new then retest nxt week thanks for advice
 
The file should open in either Notepad or Excel. Nanocom CSV format is not quite correct because BBS are still using semi-colons rather than commas to separate the variables.

Semicolon is the European default. Makes sense really as they use commas instead of decimal points and that would mess up the number of columns.

In Excel just highlight the column and then ALT, D, E. (Text to colunns on menu).
 
Well that data shows essentially the same as post #30 above. Both O2 sensors are switching, although Bank-B voltage range is lower than Bank-A. My understanding is this shows the air-fuel ratios are adjusting more on Bank-A, but not sure which side is better ! Did you try swapping them over yet ?

Defintely check for air-leaks all the way from the MAF to the throttle body & manifold. Also check the exhaust manifolds are sealing against the block and the joints ewither side of the Cats.

Do a recording for the Air Fueling menu as well, so we can see the MAF airflow data at various points in the rev range.
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The rest of the Nanocom data seems to be fairly useless because none of the values change throughout. Not sure why column-U shows O2 Sensor Not Set, because they are clearly switching ??

From your file, it appears the Nanocom recordings for Motronic do not include other useful sensor data. It might need a different diag reader that can select the useful values & ignore the crap stuff that doesn't change !


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FYI I have posted a question on the Nanocom Forums to see if it's possible to combine fuel & air data recordings.

Simple bluetooth OBD reader combined with Torque app should allow you to see all readings on a Thor engine. EDIT: iPhones don't like Bluetooth.

Nanocom tends to interrogate each chip separately hence the weird grouping sometimes.
 
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