Sensor Failure

[pmb]

Engine management light has come on. Apparently it's Bank 1 Sensor 1 for which Mr T wants £218. Can an independant specialist sort this or not? Anyone else has sensor failures?

[sls]

Engine management light has come on. Apparently it's Bank 1 Sensor 1 for which Mr T wants £218. Can an independant specialist sort this or not? Anyone else has sensor failures?

yes independents can sort this fault but the cat does fail. our experience is at about 50k

[pmb]

Are you saying that the fault code is/could be the cat? It has 30k miles on the car. There is a thread on the Avensis forum (currently page 3) about oxygen sensor failures which I presume this is.

[timtriple]

Engine management light has come on. Apparently it's Bank 1 Sensor 1 for which Mr T wants £218. Can an independant specialist sort this or not? Anyone else has sensor failures?

Mine have just gone on my 2002 3 door NRG with 56000 mile on clock luckily car was bought just under a year ago with Toyota warranty :D

Booked into be replaced on Tuesday.

[timtriple]

Engine management light has come on. Apparently it's Bank 1 Sensor 1 for which Mr T wants £218. Can an independant specialist sort this or not? Anyone else has sensor failures?

Mine have just gone on my 2002 3 door NRG with 56000 mile on clock luckily car was bought just under a year ago with Toyota warranty :D

Booked into be replaced on Tuesday.

I had my sensors replaced and service/MOT at the same time. I asked how much sensors would have cost and they said over £400.00

So this year apart from petrol & usual running costs all my 2002 RAV has cost me is £190 for service and MOT

[pmb]

Had a trawl around the internet and the 2 sensors before the cat are 170 US dollars each - couldn't find a price in UK - so if we use what US pays in dollars UK pays in pounds that sounds about right. The 2 sensors after the cat are a bit cheaper so that's good news. What I did find though was that they will fail after 5 years or about 50k miles purely because of the hot enviroment they work in.

[wmcegcaveman]

Had a trawl around the internet and the 2 sensors before the cat are 170 US dollars each - couldn't find a price in UK - so if we use what US pays in dollars UK pays in pounds that sounds about right. The 2 sensors after the cat are a bit cheaper so that's good news. What I did find though was that they will fail after 5 years or about 50k miles purely because of the hot enviroment they work in.

my rav4 sensor bank1 sensor 1 has gone with a heater o/c fault at 49.000 miles .still drives fine and passed mot a week b4 it went . found and bought the part though eBay

part 89467-42010 the same part is denso 234-9028 total price with postage to uk £70. was qouted £171 from tamworth toyota for the same part 2 days to order.

[wmcegcaveman]

Had a trawl around the internet and the 2 sensors before the cat are 170 US dollars each - couldn't find a price in UK - so if we use what US pays in dollars UK pays in pounds that sounds about right. The 2 sensors after the cat are a bit cheaper so that's good news. What I did find though was that they will fail after 5 years or about 50k miles purely because of the hot enviroment they work in.

my rav4 sensor bank1 sensor 1 has gone with a heater o/c fault at 49.000 miles .still drives fine and passed mot a week b4 it went . found and bought the part though eBay

part 89467-42010 the same part is denso 234-9028 total price with postage to uk £70. was qouted £171 from tamworth toyota for the same part 2 days to order.

[anchorman]

Good info caveman - thanks for posting.

[martinrav4]

Had a trawl around the internet and the 2 sensors before the cat are 170 US dollars each - couldn't find a price in UK - so if we use what US pays in dollars UK pays in pounds that sounds about right. The 2 sensors after the cat are a bit cheaper so that's good news. What I did find though was that they will fail after 5 years or about 50k miles purely because of the hot enviroment they work in.

my rav4 sensor bank1 sensor 1 has gone with a heater o/c fault at 49.000 miles .still drives fine and passed mot a week b4 it went . found and bought the part though eBay

part 89467-42010 the same part is denso 234-9028 total price with postage to uk £70. was qouted £171 from tamworth toyota for the same part 2 days to order.

im after a simular part which eBay shop was it i found this one but they dont ship to the uk

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/01-03-Toyot...sspagenameZWD2V

[pmb]

Glad to see you found my post from last year. When I saw your post a few days ago I thought sensor heater circuit straight away. Dealers never seem to have them in.

[Fabio]

oxygensensors.com ship to the UK but the prices are going to be about :

Rav 4 older models

• pre cat= approx £30 inc shipping - duties
  
  
• post cat= approx £45 inc shipping - duties
  
  

Rav 4 later models

• pre cat= approx £100 inc shipping - duties
  
  
• post cat = approx £50 inc shipping - duties
  
  

bear in mind universal sensors can be had off eBay for a lot cheaper - you just need to search - get the appropriate wire type sensor/heater requirements and be prepared to do some splicing of the old electrical connectors.

[Hoovie]

oxygensensors.com ship to the UK but the prices are going to be about :

Rav 4 older models

• pre cat= approx £30 inc shipping - duties
  
  
• post cat= approx £45 inc shipping - duties
  
  

Rav 4 later models

• pre cat= approx £100 inc shipping - duties
  
  
• post cat = approx £50 inc shipping - duties
  
  

bear in mind universal sensors can be had off ebay for a lot cheaper - you just need to search - get the appropriate wire type sensor/heater requirements and be prepared to do some splicing of the old electrical connectors.

older? later? I would guess RAV 4.1 is older? RAV4.3 is later? RAV4.2?