Air Flow Sensor

[exdotcomer]

Hi-

My check engine went on the other day- took it to the dealer... they said series one, bank one air flow sensor is lazy and will get worse soon. they want $490 + tax for the sensor and labor. I started to get a little rough idle last night.

I called Toyota, once they found out i had a lexus,they transferred me to "their own lexus dept"- i left a message and nver heard back from them.

the car has 115 k miles, always dealer maintened, and current on all services.

I was expecting this service to be about 300 including tax... what do you guys/gal think?

thank you very much,

g

[dcfish]

Hi-

My check engine went on the other day- took it to the dealer... they said series one, bank one air flow sensor is lazy and will get worse soon. they want $490 + tax for the sensor and labor. I started to get a little rough idle last night.

I called Toyota, once they found out i had a lexus,they transferred me to "their own lexus dept"- i left a message and nver heard back from them.

the car has 115 k miles, always dealer maintened, and current on all services.

I was expecting this service to be about 300 including tax... what do you guys/gal think?

thank you very much,

g

Clean the sensor.

[exdotcomer]

g

Clean the sensor.

I performed a search on how to clean the sensor and nothing came up.

I found something using google- link

but this is for the mass air flow sensor.

The dealer said the car had two air flow sensor and never mentioned the Mass air flow sensor- that would be on top of the engine?

I thought the air flow sensor he was talking about is underneath the car, one in front of the cat and one after the cat.

thanks for your help

[exdotcomer]

ok- just called auto zone for the hell of it, and they're telling me, since the dealer said series 1 , bank1, i need an oxygen sensor, not a mass air flow sensor.

He said to get this one Sensor

i'm not that handy, how hard would it be to replace myself?

I'm off to so more searching on this.