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Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:36 am
The ECU could not cause the O2 sensor to fail. The O2 sensor simply generates a voltage potential thats read by the ECU, thus the ECU doesn't have a way to directly effect or ruin the sensors.
The front O2 sensors tell you when theirs been a misfire. The rear O2 sensors check for catalytic converter efficiency by comparing before and after cat O2 values in the exhaust gas. So if your rear cats are dead then the rear sensors will set a code, something like P0431/P0421 I believe.
87 Octane gas could be the culprit if it had a high oxygenated content (i.e. ethanol). The spark knock along with extra Oxygen content could set a O2 sensor code.