Broke4speed
Well-known member
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2009
- Location
- Marionville, Ontario, Canada
I?ve had 3 Innovate wideband fail for various reasons in the last 4 years. One of them took out a very expensive motor.
Switched to AEM, no problems. The separate sensor ground on the AEM is a huge bonus.
I have found all Innovate products to be made of diarrhea. I had one of their LM-2 dual channel widebands that was supposed to also be an OBD2 reader, and it wouldn't even connect to my wife's 2004 Cavalier, which was one of the simplest VPW protocols available at the time. It would connect to my 2000 Saturn, but while connected the dash would peg all the needles and flash most of the dash bulbs. While connected, the car would not start either.
The channels were nowhere near similar either. The reading would change depending on which channel was being used (swapped sensor connectors), and it needed all sorts of external pullups in order to get a tach signal from a COIL. The Innovate forum at the time, no idea what it's like currently, was nothing but thread after thread of people having problems with their products.