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Old 11-26-2008, 07:57 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roflwaffle View Post
AFAIK that shouldn't happen. The ECU should start reading info from the post cat oxygen sensor within a few seconds and if the mixture is too rich lean it out.
You assume, by this statement, that all cars are OBD-2... not all cars have a post cat O2 sensor, and even a large number of those that do, only use it to see whether the catalyst is actually doing something, not to adjust the fuel/air mixture.

IIRC, it wasn't until the advent of OBD-2b that the post-cat O2 sensor's signal was used to help adjust AFR in comparison to the signal from the pre-cat sensor.
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