"Eternal Searcher" <eternalsearcher@yahoo.ca.invalid> wrote
> johngdole@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> If it's a 1997 then likely you'll have a Bosch *planar
>> type* oxygen
>> sensor available. These by design are more resistant to
>> contamination.
>> You can get them either with OEM plug, or you can get a
>> "universal"
>> wire if you don't mind the extra work of splicing the old
>> connector
>> onto the new sensor.
>>
>> I would not get the Denso sensor. IMO those thimble types
>> are junk.
>>
>> http://www.boschautoparts.com/Produc...s/PlanarO2.htm
>
> Complete hogwash!!! Your opinion of Denso being junk is
> not shared by most.

I have been using Denso and only Denso in my 91 Civic for
years. It is on its second one. The first did not fail; I
replaced it pre-emptively at about 150k miles.

Bosch is not thought highly of at all in the archives here
or at www.honda-tech.com.