New Boxster Owner

[mike914]

Thanks dghii

I like you idea, do you know which OBD-II code reader I should borrow/Buy??

Originally Posted by dghii

Welcome and congrats!

O2 sensors are NOT that expensive...$74 on Amazon in March of 2015 for OEM Bosch 15182 upstream sensor. Thing is, lots of folks seem to want to replace all 4 at once if one is throwing a code.

My take is that the OBD-II code will tell you which sensor(s) are having issues. First thing I did was note and then clear the code to see if/when it came back. Over the course of a few years, I would sporadically get the same O2 code....maybe once every 6 months or so. Once the code finally started to pop up more frequently, I bought and installed the one offending sensor, March of 2015year. No codes since.
BTW, my 2000S has just under 132K miles.

[bwdz]

What is M3, I work off the m59 corridor you guys are mentioning about a mile from the old Silverdome.
Oh, and a good scanner and even some cheap apps like Torque, can monitor individual oxygen sensors output so you can scroll through each one and see the reads to look for a funny one

[bwdz]

Originally Posted by JamesVM

M3 is the new raceway off Woodward south of m-59. A road course, brand spankin new!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwiStNf2guvPAhVJC8AKHTgyD5MQFggOMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fm1concourse.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNHwA973SUEogypgqIF71PLCdG1HNQ&sig2=oYSIENkJd8QdnjJZ9BY9QA


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Oh yes, I know about M1 but you guys said M3 and when it was repeated I assumed it was not a typo and something new. I have stopped in there but have not been to any of the cars and coffee or track days yet but I will run into you guys there at some point if not in my Boxster I'll be in my TT. BTW, a friend of mine runs the service station at Woodward and Square Lake down the street, he just got a new $40k alignment rack in case you guys need to do a "track worthy" alignment, I get to do my own on his rack and it took me 3 tries to get the TT dialed in playing with camber mostly (it's front heavy unlike the Boxster) but I now have it right where I like it. Now I just got the Cayman 18" rims for the Boxster with 235 fronts so I will have to redial in the Boxster most likely.

[bwdz]

So who's going to M1 tomorrow for the track day? I'll be there working as a volunteer.

[mike914]

Hello All

Well I bought the torque scanner tool and downloaded the app on my phone.
It indicated an o2 sensor fault passenger side past the cats.

I bought the o2 sensor from Autozone (they sold me the wrong one it was for a 911)

Anyway I crawled under the car to see the o2 sensor was disconnected. (anyone hear of this before?)

I reconnected it and after the 2nd time O ran the car the error light went out.

I returned the sensor and all is well car runs great.

Also the original o2 sensor would not break free easily.

I hit it with some penetrating oil and used a pipe wrench on her to break loose.

Thanks for all the advice