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Originally Posted by Mattty
Another day - another problem. Feel like I'm posting on here every other day so apologies for that. Car is a 1997 945 2.3 turbo.
Well about last week I was driving down the road and my lambda/engine management light came on. Drove for another couple of minutes because I was in traffic and couldn' t stop. Pulled over and found that all the wires on my lambda sensor - located on the underside of the downpipe just after the turbo - has completely detached from the sensor. However, the car seemed to be running fine and without issue, so for the last week I have been driving with the lambda light on, but the car has been running ok.
So came out of work today - no lambda light on the dash. The bulb still works and lights up initially then goes out when the engine starts. Checked under my bonnet to make sure I wasn't going insane and to my relief, strangely, the wires are definitely still not attached to the sensor.
So my questions are; 1) How was/is the car running ok without the sensor? I thought faulty lambdas usually cause cars to run like a bag of ****e? And 2) Why is the light no longer illuminating?
Thanks for any help 😊
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Before replacing the sensor, possibly putting a new sensor at risk, can you see any cause why the wires are detached?
Are the wires known for "spontaneous detachment"?