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I would be suprised if the sensor was only used by Porsche.
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I just have two wires hanging out of the front of my bumper now - tempting to go back to where the display went blank, but that would be a 70 mile round trip.
Anyone know whether it's a Porsche specific part (I suspect that even if the sensor is generic the mounting is specific as it needs to fit the hole in the bumper)?
If it's more than a couple quid I might just get in the car and go looking for it,
Thanks,
Never heard of one falling off. How fast were you going....
I would be suprised if the sensor was only used by Porsche. The usual suspects are VW/Audi and sometimes Mercedes or BMW, but I have no clue.
Hey Mike, just a thought, but are you absolutely sure you didn't knock it off the last time you washed the car - maybe on your drive way...?[8|]
.. or that it's found its way back towards your radiators? - It would be the natural way for it to go with the wind blowing in as you drive along..? It could be just laying in there somewhere.
Adrian.
It fell off at the end of a long and fast (!!) cross country trip last night - there was a rough section about half a mile long- bit like sustained rumble strips - that I know I took too fast, and I also had a bird disappear under the front which possibly could have knocked it (no blood or gore though ??) Noticed it had goe when I started it up in the morning in a hotel car park. I think it must have finally dropped off there, as the temp reading is so close to the digital speedometer I can't believe I didn't notice it last night.
I've had a good look around inside - there's just the two hanging wires.....
Would like to see a picture of what you have.
If there are just 2 wires and no male connector on the end then someone or something cut it off. When the male and female connectors are connected they are not going to come apart via vibration since there are supposed to be locked together via 2 locking tabs.
Not clever enough to upload a photo, but looking at your photos the rubber grommet (if that's the right term) that the wires come through the body work through is missing, with just the two bare wires hanging through.
Not obvious in your photos is that there is a ring behind the horizontal spar on the air intake that I assume the sensor slots into.
I wonder whether I did dislodge it a few days ago washing the car, and that it was bumping hard enough around to get pulled off the wires. There is no sign of any connectors.
They aren't expensive - £9.37 inc VAT. Part number 996.641.142.00. The wiring diagram shows terminal 1 on the sensor going to the instrument cluster, and terminal 2 to earth. You should be able to establish which wire on the car is earth with a continuity tester. Hopefully the sensor will be marked, and you will have some means to connect it to the trailing wires.
Discovered a blackbird up there at the weekend - goodness knows where it was hiding the first time I looked, but I suspect it may have had something to do with it.
I've now got hold of the part, but it's only the sensor, not the female socket that it plugs into (which I need too, and assumed would come as part of it. I have scoured the parts catalogue pdf file (on my version it is p225, illustration 802-00, part 18 is the temp sensor ) but can't see the socket anywhere. Can anyone help?
