1998 Q45 knock sensor help.

[reidness]

I have 98 q and she has been running great after i installed 8 new coils and factory plugs, super nice car and very well taken care of she has 112k and the coils and plugs were installed about 3 months ago,anyway just last night she started to become gutless!! kind of weird so i came home and gave her a rest and drove her again and she was fine? anyway i have no light on yet but i had a pending knock sensor bank 1 in the pending bank? well my question is i know i need to replace both and the harnes but i need to take this car on a long trip next week, and im in a pickle with time and everything, is this going to be a problem, it will alsmost be all highway miles but its a long trip about 1800 miles round trip, is there away around that knock sensor{disconnect and let the other one do the job} thanx for the replys and advice.

[paranoidjack]

There has been talk of putting a resistor inline on the KS harness to "fool" the car into thinking it's there, but good luck with that.

zerothread/420801-fgy33-plenum-removal- ... g-pics-now

[bullittandy]

You don't need to do anything. When the knock sensors fail the ECU retards the timing to keep it safe from detonation. The only side effect is what you've discovered-you lose some hp-maybe 20 or so?

[reidness]

Thanx for the replys, im going to try and replace both and the harness when i get back next week, thanx again