...how does £121 from my friendly local main dealer sound?! Sounds pretty steep to me. Does anyone know how much the Halfrauds non-genuine replacements are and what the pin-outs are?

Ta

 

i got quoted £20 pounds from a spares shop for a universal lambda sensor that would fit subarus. MY97 onwards are 3 pin, they have two white wires and a black wire. hope that helps

 

WHAT!!

Dealer charged me £120

Apparently it's a Bosch part so you could it a lot cheaper if someone would be so kind as to post the part no...

 

In my experience you get what you pay for! I went down the cheap route and 2 lambdas later I contacted API engines and bought a Bosch one off David. Problem solved! IIRC it was about £90

 

Just replaced mine, £109 from the dealer i think is what they said.
Cheap compared to Audi Items, both of the lambda's went on my dads V6 allroad and they were over £300 each and a bitch to get to so hours of labour charges as well.

Fortunatley still under warrenty, pheww

So £100 odd quid for a genuine item, not so bad.

Dan.

 

Has anyone got the bosch part # is it the LS05?

 

what does a lambda sensor do and why do they need changing?

stew

 

If you have an early WRX (93-) an official sensor is around £300. All because the wire is about 18" longer!
If your lambda is shot you won't pass the MOT and your fuel consumption is likely to go up....You will probably be down on power as well....

 

check the CEL, I changed my MAF and it turned out to be the lambda.

 

Thanks for the replies

Changed MAF a while ago, changing lambda now because there are different symptoms, it's done 103k on the original one so I guess it's not the end of the world... Anyway, I bought a pukka one from the dealer this am, still feel ripped off though

 

Don't feel ripped off, some of the cheaper items you'll be replacing every other month Your genuine has probably lasted from as new......good value for moneey in the long term