Rubbish quality sensors fitted as standard?

[ClassicCarman]

I have never known a car devour sensors like my Daughters 1.6 Launch Edition.
It's on it's 3rd camshaft position sensor, 3rd exhaust oxygen sensor and now I am about to fit a 4th water coolant level sensor. I try and find the genuine part now after her third water level sensor actually caught on fire, burning the plug connector and wiring. Luckily she was approaching a garage so she pulled in and the mechanic immediately cut off the cable to the sensor. She loves the car even though the drivers electric seat fore and aft adjustment has sheared it's gear mechanism and an occasional fright when she kept getting a brake fault message telling her to stop immediately. We had the brakes completely rebuilt with new pads and discs when we bought the car as it had been standing outside for 6 months unused and were pretty rusty. The flip up screen image used to break up intermittently so I dismantled the dash and removed the video cable to the screen an re-wired the broken cables. I presume the fold up and down movement every time you switch on breaks the wires eventually. I like the styling of the car. It is certainly a modern classic but it's so unreliable. Maybe later models were better.

I just need to know the 3 cable positions and colours that go on the sensor as I am having to hard wire the cables to a new connector due to the original being cut off by the mechanic when on fire........or is it worth bothering at all to replace it?

 

[neilgsxr69]

I have never known a car devour sensors like my Daughters 1.6 Launch Edition.
It's on it's 3rd camshaft position sensor, 3rd exhaust oxygen sensor and now I am about to fit a 4th water coolant level sensor. I try and find the genuine part now after her third water level sensor actually caught on fire, burning the plug connector and wiring. Luckily she was approaching a garage so she pulled in and the mechanic immediately cut off the cable to the sensor. She loves the car even though the drivers electric seat fore and aft adjustment has sheared it's gear mechanism and an occasional fright when she kept getting a brake fault message telling her to stop immediately. We had the brakes completely rebuilt with new pads and discs when we bought the car as it had been standing outside for 6 months unused and were pretty rusty. The flip up screen image used to break up intermittently so I dismantled the dash and removed the video cable to the screen an re-wired the broken cables. I presume the fold up and down movement every time you switch on breaks the wires eventually. I like the styling of the car. It is certainly a modern classic but it's so unreliable. Maybe later models were better.

I just need to know the 3 cable positions and colours that go on the sensor as I am having to hard wire the cables to a new connector due to the original being cut off by the mechanic when on fire........or is it worth bothering at all to replace it?

Hi yeh I have a launch edition also and although I don’t do mega mileage in it it’s been very reliable, as for sensors there’s so much cheap crap out there it’s not worth putting the cheap stuff in especially the coolant level sensor go Bosch and you should be ok with that as for other sensors you could be looking at other possible causes for the issues your having and fault codes may point to sensors when it’s actually something else.
What’s the mileage at?

 

[ClassicCarman]

It's only done 46k. Just had a look at the exhaust back box and it has a pipe from the right pair of pipes leading up and along to the left back box at the side of the exit of the two left pipes. I've just received the replacement coolant sensor and it has long probes. I am sure the original had short probes.

 

[neilgsxr69]

The probes on the original coolant sensor are long,
Or the one I removed the other day from a breaker had and it were the original one.
46k is nothing but may need a walnut blast.
The exhaust isn’t an Ulter quad it were something Peugeot sold as an accessory it runs at the rear of the bumper.