I've Just Killed my Seventh MAF!!!!!!

[cordobabrendy]

glue the bracket back together, ill get a pic for you tomorrow of what I did, worked a charm.

 

[DamoR]

cordobabrendy that sounds like a plan cheers can't justify paying £80 quid odd for a maf that hasn't failed!!!

 

[Martyn]

I've shed a tear for you this evening Dave, it is indeed a sad day

 

[GrayT]

Still a Bosch exchange, but better packaged and protected when supplied than those from the dealers.

v odd dave, must be something odd going on, vibration seems the only cause???

Maybe you ought to leave the protective bubble wrap on next time you fit it Dave?

 

[DPJ]

51k (living in Northern Ireland, motorway journeys are never long) Im averaging around 30mpg normally but with a lot of stop starting through work i see around 27mpg. never get above and stay above 30 as I end up finding a nice backroad somewhere in the sticks and cant help myself.
Got my timing belt and broken waterpump replaced on tuesday and after retightening my squashed pipe fittings im now seeing 21psi where before I was 19psi. seems a bit quicker now. It took me three days to make myself floor it though as i was worried it'd come back off. It did on thesday night and scared the living shat out of me.

edit: I did manage 43mpg once the waterpump started failing, I had to drive it around 70 miles before I got it home and decided to leave it until it was fixed. babied it the whole way sub 2500 rpm.

I asked the question because it might give a clue to driving style.... I'm doing just short of 400 miles a week at 22mpg. (Constant stick?)

there's something about it tho dave... i know you aint enjoying the experience on the things, but its just too frequent to be true.
nothing vibrating?
no shocks getting to the thing?

is it dead no sensor signal dead? bump in the road at the time? shock during accelleration or anything?

Yes Bill, nil reading - Vag-com says it is a Maf no more. Fell off its perch. expired.

It was like riding a cavalry horse, one minute it's running, then it died under me. I managed a year on the last one though. I'm not complaining. It's just the ominous feeling I have that if I put a new one on now, I could kill it within days unless I change something.

dielectic (spelling!) grease helps give a more solid contact, if youre having voltage spikes or owt that may help?

It had dielectric grease in. One of the first non-sooties. N75 and MAP too.

I've shed a tear for you this evening Dave, it is indeed a sad day

Cheers Marts. It was a good MAF, if I didn't have to exchange it then I'd probably have made it into some kind of desktoy that Mrs DPJ would always compalin about...

Maybe you ought to leave the protective bubble wrap on next time you fit it Dave?

The thing is that I honestly made a tight little bubblewrap cushion and shoved it between the MAF and the plastic wiring duct beneath it. It thought it worked .....

The Maf is dead............... long live the next one..... or not!

 

[k4ith]

They changed the temp sensor but it feels slower now as a result. Something else has to be wrong....

what about the air mass meter/ oxygen sensor or are the the same? as prev post mentions did you try the dielectic grease?

 

[DPJ]

Of the four? times I've had MAF failure on the road, I've been accelerating hard on straight smooth A roads, in fourth at about 4k revs. There's a huge jolt while the CPU has a word with itself and then TCS light comes on.

Why hasn't it happened in similar conditions on bumpy back roads

 

[PhilW]

Whats the part number on it dave?


Gutted for you tho, you must have spent a fortune on them now.

 

[DPJ]

Whats the part number on it dave?


Gutted for you tho, you must have spent a fortune on them now.

Cheers Phil,
06A 906 461 LX (although I understand Bosch are changing it to 06A 906 461 DPJ for ease. )

 

[Ste]

Just broke my second one in 4 days as well. Exactly as you did, hard acceleration and then no power. Wonder if the cause is something on the LC that's different on the LCRs?

 

[DPJ]

Just broke my second one in 4 days as well. Exactly as you did, hard acceleration and then no power. Wonder if the cause is something on the LC that's different on the LCRs?

What's your level of tune and mods? Have you logged the car to see what airflow you were producing?

 

[Ruddmeister]

I did loose a MAF whilst I had a cold air intake, although the mounting was shocking (my workmanship that is) and it was the only MAF I had in three years of motoring.

7 MAF's certainly is worse than just bad luck

 

[Pabs]

I'm now quite happy in the fact I know my 4yr old car has had only 3 maf's... only 1 just after I picked it up in Oct 2004.... since then this maf has done 45k, and has run on std airbox, Carbonio CAI, and now k&n panel filter with modified box.

Good luck with number 8!

 

[the_prophet]

i picked up a ram air kit from bill about two weeks ago, fitted it and killed my maf the very next day lol.

I then replaced it and fitted ramair with a selection of rubber gromets around the mounting points and it seems fine since - time will tell though i've done about 400 miles on it this week and no problems so far (hard miles at that lol).

gotta be something to do with vibrations / shocks getting to your maf though DPJ. hopefully this will be my only failure.

 

[DPJ]

I'm now quite happy in the fact I know my 4yr old car has had only 3 maf's... only 1 just after I picked it up in Oct 2004.... since then this maf has done 45k, and has run on std airbox, Carbonio CAI, and now k&n panel filter with modified box.

Good luck with number 8!

Cheers Paul - #8 has been running for an hour.

Investigation is underway (not me - an acknowledged forum expert) on a plausible non-vibration theory. Watch this thread!

 

[Ste]

What's your level of tune and mods? Have you logged the car to see what airflow you were producing?

Engine's completely standard, apart from a green panel filter. No.3 seems much better now. See how long this one lasts