can you safely drive a 2000 camery with bad sensors
When you have a bad oxygen sensor your car may consume a lot of gas. Your car may also drive slower.
Safe, yes, smart, no. Damage can occur to the Catalytic Converter.
When the oxygen sensor goes bad, the check engine light goes on.
Yes it can hurt your engine to drive with a bad knock sensor. The knock sensor should be replaced as soon as possible.
When an oxygen sensor goes bad a car will burn gas at a higher than normal rate because it will not be producing as much power as before. The oxygen sensor checks the amount of exhaust.
If the sensor might allow the airbag to deploy while driving with no collision, that could be deadly. When my Dodge caravan had an air bag sensor problem, it wasn't in danger of deploying unnecessarily, but rather not deploying in a collision. However, the horn didn't work. If your airbag is not in danger of deploying unnecessarily, your car is safe to drive, just get the sensor repaired as soon as you can.
An auto xray scanner can determine if a O2 sensor is bad.
It sure can.
There really isn't any way to test the oxygen sensor to see if it is good or bad. If your check engine light is on you can take it to Autozone and they will hook it up to computer and if the oxygen sensor is bad, the computer will detect it.
bad oxygen sensor bad map sensor
Replace both of them.