^^^ I don't even know what that (ngk afx wb) is. If that's a trick oxygen sensor, I would think that over time, there ability to sense any change in the exhaust A/F mixture in a timely matter, starts to fade. I have read that OEM sensors, due indeed start to loose there ability to rapidly send back their sensed signals to the ECM as time goes on. Not enough to have the ECM set a fault code against it necessarily. But I'll bet it could make a car run a little ruff around the idle speed range, and possibly affect it at higher RPMs some.