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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 11:02 AM
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Default Need help with O2 sensor

I was reading the how to for replacing the o2 sensor and they were referring to the 3 wire version not the 4 wire version because the A4 12valve had a 3wire sensor and I accidentaly bought the 3 wire version even though my car has 4wire. My old sensor had 2 white, 1 black and 1 gray cable and the new one had the same except it was missing the gray one. I read that the extra cable is just a ground so I hooked up all the cables coming from the ECU correspondingly to the 3 wire o2 sensor and grounded the extra cable from the ecu to the negative terminal of the battery because I read here that it is just a ground cable. Now I have a check engine light. Can someone please advise on what to do and what I did wrong? Thanks!
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 11:31 AM
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Default ground doesn't mean negative side of the battery...

you can connect it to any solid part of chassis.. the entire chassis is ground.... dont' know if this will help...
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 11:34 AM
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Default Re: ground doesn't mean negative side of the battery...

Heh, and the ground runs back to the negative side of the battery. One and the same, really.
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 01:34 PM
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Default A 3 wire 02 sensor is a post-cat sensor not pre-cat.

Go buy the correct 4 wire sensors.
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