Bosch vs OE Oxygen sensor failure on 525i?
My indy advised me (when the time comes) to replace my oxygen sensor with a genuine BMW oxygen sensor and not a bosch sensor. They have tried both and have experienced a fairly large number of failures on the Bosch sensor and not the BMW unit. He even said the sensors look alike yet could not explain it.
Anyone else had that experience? TIA
That is a bad sign for Bosch!
Looks like I need to question Bosch quality when buying replacement parts. Now are there replacement for Bosch products that are high quality?
Also, I may just keep my oxygen sensor until it fails, I was considering replacing it just because it has almost 60,000 miles on it.
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Originally Posted by winfred
the oe sensor is a bosch, i just don't think they are as good as they use to be, mine only lasted a year and a half, bosch started going down hill when autozone started selling it, i beleve that bosch is subbing out too much parts building to other countrys, a lot of bosch stuff no longer comes from germany a good portion comes from cz republic, seen some india and china too, not as good a qualiity control, bmw may have a small stock pile of the older stuff the reason they seem better