Subject: Re: Time for my occasional rant on part quality by bogus on 2012/5/1 17:14:34
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92Polo wrote: Have you considered the possibility that there might be something causing it to fail?
Granted I don't know what that would be, but a sensor such as that with no moving parts should work for years and years no matter who makes it.
Don't get me wrong, I hate crappy parts as much as the next guy but in my experience if you have repeated failure of the same part, it's usually not the part to blame.
Maybe something like corroded or flaky contacts on the wiring harness side? Perhaps when you plug in a new sensor it "cleans" the contacts slightly so it makes up good for a while and then corrodes back up?
I ripped a brand new opti off of my car once because the pigtail that goes between the opti and the main harness had corroded up. The pigtail was brand new as well and had never been wet but it was sure messed up.
I have thought about this... more than once. And again, yesterday, I re-cleaned the harness plug. And I am left with the same question: What would cause these things to fail?
I will say this, the last one that failed, the plastic socket was broken in a belt change. I hate it when that happens... but it continued to work until the numbers freaked out. Now, if the last one failed because of goo on it, that's fine.
But the reality is that this Chinese made part is not going to last. What I don't understand is how the knumbnuts at O'Reilly can say with a straight face that it will.
I think the last one was NAPA... that or GM OEM. Hell, I had a brand new GM OEM part fail within the week one time.
