Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Asked by clintsmith on April 15, 2021
I have a 2006 Lexus LX 470 and I’m getting the check engine light on. I have a reader and I am seeing P0430 “ catalyst efficiency below normal (bank 2). I took some data from the sensors and plotted it but didn’t really understand it that well. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if this reflects a bad catalytic converters or not. Not sure why the downstream sensor voltages would be different. My understanding was that the downstream sensor traces would be oscillating like the upstream of the cat was bad though. Thanks for any help.
EDIT (adding catylytic converter temperature plot):
Note: T0 on this plot is not the same as T0 on the top plot. This was taken after that data set.
Sorry the plotting software ran the graphs together.
Bank 2 Sensor 2 seems stuck rich.
I'm more suspect of the downstream Bank 2 sensor - it's a flat line. As long as it's up to temperature, it should show swings back and forth relative to the upstream sensors.
I'm not sure you're hot enough (Not ECT, catalyst temperature). I'd love to see the same graphs after some spirited driving.
It appears they went closed loop at time 130, and Bank 1 responded as I would expect to a rich event around time 630.
Bank 2 seems anemic. Ukko's suggestion of a swap makes good diagnostic sense.
Answered by SteveRacer on April 15, 2021
Have a look at Test 2 in this answer.
According to it, Bank 2 Sensor 2 (B2S2) is pegged rich in the plot, which is fine.
Bank 1 Sensor 2 (B1S2) is not fine; it should not be oscillating up and down like that.
Answered by Zaid on April 15, 2021
from the inlet and outlet temps of the cat which are about the same, i'd say the cat is not doing its job...there must be around 200 deg difference between the inlet and outlet temps-outlet being the higher one.
Answered by fekeyrse123 on April 15, 2021
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