摘要 |
Four cases are to be distinguished from one another for an exhaust gas line of a motor vehicle with an oxygen storage reservoir and a lambda probe located downstream from at least part of the oxygen storage reservoir, specifically in each case, whether or not the oxygen storage reservoir has sufficient storage capacity and whether or not the lambda probe is fully serviceable. For this purpose, the exhaust gas line is supplied in an alternating sequence with rich and lean exhaust gas, in two different passes the degree of oxygen filling being varied differently. For a minor variation of the degree of oxygen filling, the serviceability of the lambda probe can be deduced on the basis of certain criteria. If the lambda probe is fully serviceable, the sufficiency or insufficiency of the oxygen storage capacity of the oxygen storage reservoir can be deduced for a greater variation of the degree of oxygen filling.
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