mr. fix it: Whopping snowstorm to whallop the Northeast.....

A whopping snowstorm was predicted for the Northeast yesterday 10-15", so we trained New Englanders hunkered down. We went to the store got our bread and milk and waxed up our shovels and made sure we had spare shear pins for the snowblowers...

We planned several small projects in the shop waiting for the snow to accumulate... our first project was to change the battery terminal on my grandmothers car as it was rusted and eaten by an outgassing battery.

We finish that project and then move on to her oxygen sensor... on December 18, 2009 Mr. Fix-it replaced a piece of her exhaust system , the flex pipe, in that particular piece of the exhaust there exists an oxygen sensor, a part that tells the engine how much gasoline to spray through the computer. The job went well back in December, or so we thought. About a week after replacement the ominous check engine light comes on .....we hook it to the tester and the code read either full rich or shorted, i cant remember exactly.

I dig through all receipts and find that one, luckily it has a year warranty. I call parts store and they ordered me another one. Of course I had to pay for the second one until I returned the defective one, another $100 out of my pocket right now!

Check out the pictures,it is kind of blurry, but it reads...ASSEMBLED IN U.S.A with foreign components....unbelievable.....maybe that is why it lasted a week and then failed?#$%$##@$%^^&&**(

See below pictures of oxygen sensor ......