Wot would happen 2 my car if the lambda sensor is not working right?
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Your car will get a big sluggish. This is more technical "The exhaust gas oxygen sensor (EGO or O2), or lambda sensor, is the key sensor in the engine fuel control feedback loop. The computer uses the O2 sensor's input to balance the fuel mixture, leaning the mixture when the sensor reads rich and richening the mixture when the sensor reads lean.
Lambda sensors produces a voltage signal that recognises the amount of unburned oxygen in the exhaust. An oxygen sensor is essentially a battery that generates its own voltage. When hot (at least 250 degrees c.), the zirconium dioxide element in the sensor's tip produces a voltage that varies according to the amount of oxygen in the exhaust compared to the ambient oxygen level in the outside air. The greater the difference, the higher the sensor's output voltage.
Sensor output ranges from 0.2 Volts (lean) to 0.8 Volts (rich). A perfectly balanced or "stoichiometric" fuel mixture of 14.7 parts of air to 1 part of fuel gives an average reading of around 0.45 Volts.
The lambda sensor's output voltage doesn't remain constant, however. It flip-flops back and forth from rich to lean. Every time the voltage reverses itself and goes from high to low or vice versa, it's called a "cross count." A good O2 sensor on a injection system should fluctuate from rich to lean about 1 per second. If the number of cross counts is lower than this, it tells you the O2 sensor is getting sluggish and needs to be replaced"
I hope that helps.
according to the year of your car the lambda[oxygen sensor] wasnt even a conceptual idea,,however,,,your car would use more gas than normal,,and run poorly,,
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Take a look on the link below under drivability symptoms for what happens. Not fixing it can also lead to mis-firing.
the electronic engine management will malfunction - the sensor tests the exhaust gas to make sure the injectors are putting the correct amount of fuel into the cylinders for the amount of air also going through. there's a particular ratio that gives the best result for economical / low emissions running, and a slightly different one for maximum power. if it's giving the wrong information, obviously the wrong amount of fuel will be used, and it'll be like setting the choke wrong in an older car - it'll either burn too lean (making a lot of Nitrogen oxides and overheating the cylinders - may even melt a piston, in the extreme) or too rich (lots of smoke, petrolly smell, noticably poor running, massive carbon deposits in the cylinders and valves). Similar stuff will happen if it detects the sensor is faulty, but it will likely put on a warning light and switch to a "fail safe" mode, which will tend to make it run slightly rich (and so a bit slower and more smokey) in order to prevent the pistons being damaged.
The potential for damage goes from slight to severe depending on the car and the nature of the fault. As it's a pretty cheap to both test and to fix i'd reccomend you just take it down the nearest garage and ask them to check it out if you reasonably suspect this.
Why do you keep asking the same question?
If it's not working get it replaced. An exhaust gas test, like that done for an MOT will tell you if you have a problem in that area.
Are you susre about the year of car. Lamda sensors were not fitted to cars that early.
A 1955 Corsa your lucky ?
yr car would not run rite. normaly you would tell by its tick over,it would rev up n down or just tick over badly
it would fuc! the cat sorry!!!
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