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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 03:46 PM
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What are the blinking red leds by the front o2 sensors? It is a small box on each side of the car that starts to blink when the ignition is turned on. It looks like they are pluged into the wiring harnes of the o2 sensor. Is this normal? I have no codes, but do the lights mean something is malfunctioning?
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 03:50 PM
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Maybe thats the tracking device put there by an LEO, cause I never have seen any red LED's on a stock C5.

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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by leo97
What are the blinking red leds by the front o2 sensors? It is a small box on each side of the car that starts to blink when the ignition is turned on. It looks like they are pluged into the wiring harnes of the o2 sensor. Is this normal? I have no codes, but do the lights mean something is malfunctioning?
Step back from the car dont start it LOL

So the wife is tracking you
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 04:37 PM
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It sounds like u have 02 simulators
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 04:41 PM
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Mine doesn't have that.
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Old Apr 8, 2012 | 04:45 PM
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Is there a watch or a cell phone attached to the device? If so, call the bomb squad.
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Originally Posted by CHIWS6
It sounds like u have 02 simulators
I have never seen O2 simulators with blinking LEDs, of course that does not mean they do not exist.
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It is something that definitely did not come from the factory. Do you have any mafia enemies?
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They're O2 sims. My old ones had red lights.
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Does it look like this??

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