Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
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- VX L67 Getrag
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Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
Just wondering if anyone has come across a universal 5 wire o2 sensor & even if not can you buy any 5 wire o2 sensor & cut/shut in original harness & if so can you use a multimeter to figure which wire is what if colour coding is different… I guess you’d also need to make sure it’s a LSU 4.2 or 4.9 somehow.
- VX L67 Getrag
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Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
The only reason I asked this was for Mazda 3’s of 2004-2010 era they are common to play up & worth around $400 which I think is ridiculous!
- Charlescrown
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Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
The cheapest LSU 4.2 I have found is genuine Holden.
- VX L67 Getrag
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Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
Yeah but does anyone know the resistance testing to know what colour wires to use if the coding is different?
Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
I thought all LSU of a certain version all use the same plug? Unless it's the whole Jap do it differently to industry standard thing?
I'm the director of VSH (Vlad's Spec Holden), because HSV were doing it ass about.
Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
vlad01 wrote:I thought all LSU of a certain version all use the same plug? Unless it's the whole Jap do it differently to industry standard thing?
Hiya all,
It sucks to report, I have seen 4.9's with a 4.2 plug

This is the cheapest real Bosch 4.9 I have found https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.ph ... 483&jsn=66
- Charlescrown
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Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
I thought they had different plugs. I wanted to upgrade my LM2 and it involved a different cable and firmware upgrade to swap over. Maybe those 4.9s were made in China by schoolkids. I can't really see the Japs changing things around.
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There is heaps of fakes floating around. We did a write up on fake ones that were coming with the 14Point7 kits a few years back, so when Gareth was reselling the kits, he got the controllers from 14Point7 and sourced the sensors from Bosch directly, they were about 120-150 AUD for the sensor iirc, so the price reflected Genuine. The fakes are a fraction of that price.
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- VX L67 Getrag
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Re: Universal 5 wire o2 sensor
Is there a way to test to know if it's LSU 4.2 or 4.9?
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