Q: Which 02 sensor?

asked by on March 28, 2018

My car has idling problems so i decided to change my 02 sensor but i did not know my car has 4 of them. I went to autoxone and 4 of them showed up. Which one should i buy to fix the idling problems.

My car has 118000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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