Intercontinental sporadic shite diagnosis

[chaseracer]

This is a wild stab in the dark, but someone may have a useful* suggestion.

 

A dear friend with not much money has a mid-90s Daewoo Cielo, ie. Nexia/mk2 Astra.  She lives in Port Douglas, Queensland - so, much as I would like to, popping round to have a quick look is sadly not really an option.

 

It still seems to run OK, but the EML has come on.  Some Google-fu suggests the O₂ sensor might be on the fritz, though it hasn't yet been introduced to a fault-code reader.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

* Other than "scrap the fecker"!

[Junkman]

It needs to be introduced to a fault code reader.

[Stanky]

Get a cheapy OBD2 reader and the torque app for a smartphone and it will cost about 10% of what a garage will charge. It won't give you ALL the info but probably enough to see what area the problem lies in.

[Junkman]

Would it really lead to hardship if the car was brought to a little garage?

[hairnet]

most likely the oxy sensor - civic does this regularly and its been foreign cuntries inc scotland and never a problem - most likely dirty sensor or broken wire

 

15 quid on a reader would be a good idea - garage would charge that to have a look and do the same

[chaseracer]

This is what I have advised, but it's the wee small hours of tomorrow where she lives... 

[colino]

I would have been worried if any older v/x based car didn't have the eml on.  Try the paperclip method; on that age, it's bound to work.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

[scaryoldcortina]

 

mid-90s

 

 

Try the paperclip method; on that age, it's bound to work.

 

This. Too old for OBD2, but you can count the flashes and look up the code with no special tools (just the paperclip)

 

http://codes.rennacs.com/plugins/DaewooEFI/DAEWOO-13-Nexia.php