I killed the wide band 02 sensor for my lm-1 and went to a/e for a replacement. (Actually matt bought it) They charged 79 plus tax for the sensor. I had talked to them before I bought the unit and they told me they could do replacement for a little over 50.

I called dave because I remembered him saying that the lm-1 sensor was the same as some volkswagon. Sure enough I found out the application and started doing some research on price. I found prices from atuozone, car quest, napa and advance auto. Car quest and napa were both reasonable at 39.99 and 46.99 napa being the cheaper of the two. I found auto zone was 132 and change. I then checked on advanced auto and they were at 199.99 for the damn thing. Since I know the guys up at the store I printed off the napa page and went up there to see if they did price matching. When I showed one of the guys the price difference of 150+ dollars for their sensor he was very suprised. I told him I didn't like dealing with napa and would rather buy the sensor from them if they were even close in price. He told me he would fax over the sheet I printed for him to corprate and see if he could get them to do something.
Two days later I came into the store again and he told me he had a response about the price issue and that advanced had decided they were priceing themselves out of the game. They dropped the price from 200 to 40 in 2 days.

I was amazed they stood up and did something so quickly. Saved me from buying my sensor from napa. They even offer a 1 year warrenty on the sensor where in lm-1 has no warrenty.
So kudo's to them for making the changes and a big thanks to mike at the gulf to bay store for making it all happen!

 

thats fucking awsome.....good info to know also!!!


does this mean you car won't backfire at the track anymore

 

Can you pm me what the make and model is. I work at advanced and also have an lm-1. Would like to get a replacement for me too.

 

Wholly Snikies!!!!

 

what store was that? I know the manager of the one here in new port richey (on 54) really cool guy and most of the people there and they are always helpful.

 

The store is the one across from Home Depot on Gulf to Bay west of 19.

O2 sensor is whatever comes on the gas powered 2000 VW Beetle 1.8 turbo. engine.

 

all that shows me is how bad they were gonna rip you off if you did not do your home work. yea they are great

 

The car will keep back firing lol
Old people love how it sounds when it does that!

I forget which year it was on the bettle but p2w is right about it being the 1.8t and it's like a 2000-2003 range.

When buying parts you always should research. If you don't then you will find out alot of times you get ripped off. So I wouldn't say advance auto is the best ever by any means but I will say they stepped up and made this right. Now if only you could get a/e to do the same.

 

This, goes without saying.

 

So...whats so bad about NAPA?