Fiat Panda exhaust sensor question

[strangeangel]

So, Our Lass has destroyed the cat/exhaust manifold assembly on her 2006 1.2 Panda by grounding the car. Snapped clean in half. "It was a big kerb" she said, more like a fucking cliff if you ask me, but anyway...

 

I had to get the sensors out to fit them to the new one, but one wouldn't budge. I wasn't getting anywhere with an open ender, so I cut the block connector off the end so I could get a ring spanner on the bastard after first noting that two of the four wires were white (there's also one grey and one black). I carefully marked one with a piece of masking tape which promptly fell off, leaving me up that well-known creek where I suspect most of us on here have holidayed at one time or another

 

Obviously I can re-connect the black and grey wires, but I've no idea which way round the two white wires go. Will this matter or is it a case of either way will do?

 

Any help gratefully received!

 

[cobblers]

Doesn't matter which way round the white ones go, they are for the heater which is just a resistor. When reconnecting them, whatever the wire is made of isn't usually solderable. You'll have to crimp it, make sure to use the ones with adhesive heatshrink liner otherwise water wicks up the wires and knackers the sensor eventually.

[twosmoke300]

^^^ whs

[sierraman]

This is why I'm happy to tackle most jobs on the car except anything to do with exhausts. If it isn't rusted up or seized its a fucker to get at and invariably involves you working on your back inches from the bloody thing.

[Noel Tidybeard]

shirley a kerb that high "is not to specification" and a claim against council is order

[strangeangel]

shirley a kerb that high "is not to specification" and a claim against council is order

 

Oh, if only it were that simple... sadly few of Our Lass' motoring adventures ever are.

 

She'd nipped out of school to collect some scrote who couldn't be arsed to turn up for an exam. On her return there were no spaces in the car park, so she drove up a grass verge,  the other side of which lies the aforementioned sheer drop. Setting off home later on, she forgot to reverse off and instead drove straight over the other side. Apparently the noise made everyone else in the car park turn round...

 

It's a good job she didn't stove in the new sump I installed recently because that is not a job I EVER want to do again!

 

Anyway, thanks again for the help chaps, much appreciated

[Jim Bell]

And that's why women drivers.

[twosmoke300]

shirley a kerb that high "is not to specification" and a claim against council is order

Or just accept the fact that you ( the missus) fucked up and not blame someone else ?