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Isn't that the truth. They just change the connectors. That's a cheap trick done on lots automotive things like pumps and relays for the O.E.M. cause.
The practice of how the sensor reaction works is the same for all. If you think about it. Why reinvent the wheel when some gets something to work and besides they may have patented it.
The heater is just another scam invented (to change the patent game) to jack up the price. You can buy a ceramic heater to set on your seat to heat the whole car for 30 bucks!
I use a single wire one because the test is done on a drive up basis. The engine has already ran longer than that 20 seconds to preheat the sensor.
If the engine doesn't pass smog on the machine. It will be for some other reason as long as the sensor puts out its proper low voltage values.
The heater may or may not last as long as the sensor and the ECU doesn't care. The heater is not in the closed loop under the smog test. If they made the ECU aware of its function it would ignore the problem once its goes closed loop with the proper signal. It becomes a mute issue. No CEL code needed.
The Mustang setup sounds like away to by an American product. Then again who says any suppliers do that either.
Leave them alone and the price will fall!
Phil
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