A few beers has turned what should have been a quite serious how to into this... ...

Appologies in advance to :-

1, All Bora owners
2, Yellow Aliens
3, Wrestlers
4, 'New men'

However, I think you'll still get the general 'jist' of how to clean your MAF...

lol.
handy AND funny...all at the same time

Clinically insane!
I know what you mean about the magnums though!

cheers for that matey, im bout to do sum maf cleanin meself ;)

Ct.p

Thanks for that

LOL nut! - thanx for that mate

Brilliant stuff, have printed that out and put it in my 'car stuff' folder! I will never be able to find it when I need it otherwise!!

Bumpety bump bump... [copied from other post]

As the originator of this thread, I tought I'd post an update.

Today I fitted a new MAF

What a difference.

Cleaning may provide a minor but shortlived improvement but if your using your car daily the deterioration will be gradual and you won't really notice.

What promted me to change it was my really bad fuel consumption, I was struggling to break the 50mpg barrier, so something was really really wrong.

Fitted the exchange unit in the car park of my local dealer and the difference is incredible.

MY ADVICE NOW IS TO BITE THE BULLET AND SIMPLY REPLACE IT, DON'T BOTHER CLEANING IT, JUST CHANGE IT. IF YOU GET THE FLAT SPOT / YOU THINK YOUR PERFORMANCE ISN'T WHAT IT SHOULD BE / YOUR MPG HAS DROPPED. GET THE CAR READ FOR FAULTS, IF NONE SHOWN (MINE DIDN'T HAVE ANY) AND YOU HAVE THE SYMPTOMS I'VE JUST DESCRIBED THEN CHANGE YOUR MAF.

Getting the car serviced on Wednesday, how much extra would it cost to get a new MAF fitted at the same time?  (he charges £38 p/h)

benjie wrote:

Getting the car serviced on Wednesday, how much extra would it cost to get a new MAF fitted at the same time?  (he charges £38 p/h)

Shouldn't cost much, it's a five minute job to change the MAF. It's an easy DIY job. The MAF itself costs approx £70 iirc.

Thanks for the reply dave, i would change it myself (following a very good guide on here, but I work mon-fri, 8-5 so it's not light enough for me to do it, plus, I'm lazy!

For those who have bought a new MAF, what is the retail cost on one?

I found a box of security bits to unscrew the MAF at ASDA £2.97. You also get lots of bits that you will probably never use. Alternatively you can unsrcew the jubilee and the two philips that screw into the airbox, you will need to squirt ECC through the plastic gauze of the housing, you will do exactly the same job and save £2.97 wow!.

Looks like an evo on the tin. just tought id let u no

MB1380 wrote:

Looks like an evo on the tin. just tought id let u no

 

Yeah looks like an EVO Vectra hybrid 

 

well.... to me it does 

cheers APS

I think it's a Vectra GSI. My mate had one and it had what looked to be sharks gills on the edge of the front bumper just like the picture.

very useful post, i dont think my mpg is what it should be but dont really wana give the delaer £50+ to check for faults is there any other way of finding out, what about swapping with anther 1 mates got a tdi golf are they all the same or different, but to me it doesnt seem like its losing power, but to be fair its my first performance diesel

thanks

Dealer told me I needed a new MAF (though they didn't seem 100% sure) but you've inspired me to try cleaning it first, thanks a lot for that. One thing I can't find mentioned elsewhere, I currently get the amber engine warning showing while driving, if I do fix the MAF (by clean or replace) will this warning go out or do I need to find someone with vag-com to clear the fault code?

Thanks,

Mike.

anyone remember what size security bit the screws are, thought i had a full set but non of them seem to fit!

I looked at this post before good and funny how to.

You used electrical cleaner didnt you? where'd you get that from?

Oh and I dont suppose that you still have the pictures?

Simon:

I looked at this post before good and funny how to.

You used electrical cleaner didnt you? where'd you get that from?

Oh and I dont suppose that you still have the pictures?

 

This might help, its from my website:

http://www.members.aol.com/mo7ameds/website/maf_problem.htm

I use Isopropyl Alcohol (99.9% Purity) to clean my MAF... been doing so since i got my car and it works very well. A link to the site I bought it from is there also.

Good man cheers, ive just ordered some from that link

no problem buddy

Hay im was looking in the HOW TO section to how to clean MAF!

Found this but the pictures arnt working any1 help me please?

Photobucket had a fit a while back.

The pics are now in my members gallery.

Colin any chance of updating your post to put the links back in? Pretty please

Cat1.4:

Colin any chance of updating your post to put the links back in? Pretty please

Sorry Cat, the pics have gone from photobucket and I lost them off the laptop

They are however in my members gallery so if peeps read the words here and look at the pics there...

 

Saying that, I'm not convinced anymore that MAF cleaning does anything at all !!

It's more of a placebo effect and I'd say if in any doubt, change it.

I put a new maf on today, wow what an improvement, tbh it broke down, after cleaing throttlebody on saturday, it was ok then got worse then today it was terrible stalling every minute or two revs just disappearing when cruising at 40 and stalling while driving which is really crappy. I managed to drive the 15 miles home past german and swedish.

I bought a new maffor 105 but will get 30 back when old one is returned, took about 20mins to fit, the hardest part is the spring clip really difficult to hold in position. and away you go. revs were anywhere between 650 ( stalling ) and 2000 was impossible to drive, can't believe just putting in a new sensor fixed it.

Bizarrley i was looking on my phone on the internet on opera mini, (ukmkivs) and ct.ps pictures where still there this afternoon, i downloaded 3 of them somewhere so will try an upload back to photobucket, although I think the quality of the pics goes out of the window.

ct.p:

Cat1.4:

Colin any chance of updating your post to put the links back in? Pretty please

Sorry Cat, the pics have gone from photobucket and I lost them off the laptop

They are however in my members gallery so if peeps read the words here and look at the pics there...

 

That's what I meant... about changing the links in your post to point to the pics in the gallery on here instead of on photobucket - if it is the same pics? 

I just thought it was me getting older n not being able to drive properly anymore,flat spot,stalling as the traffic lights turned green bit lumpy tickover or just me getting used to the power.Had my milltek cat back fitted & it seemed better so just thought it was to do with that but next day after having it remapped as soon as i left BBT's i noticed a vast improvement with the new MAF that shaun had fitted after he told me mine was dead

ct.p:

A few beers has turned what should have been a quite serious how to into this... ...

Appologies in advance to :-

1, All Bora owners
2, Yellow Aliens
3, Wrestlers
4, 'New men'

However, I think you'll still get the general 'jist' of how to clean your MAF...

 

this is a nightmare!

Updated with pics, will come in handy when I need to change mine, cheers Colin 

cd123:

Updated with pics, will come in handy when I need to change mine, cheers Colin 

 

I've cut and paste to update the first post from yours, thank you - that's all was looking for, the right pics in the right place 

Cat1.4:

cd123:

Updated with pics, will come in handy when I need to change mine, cheers Colin 

 

I've cut and paste to update the first post from yours, thank you - that's all was looking for, the right pics in the right place 

Glad it's sorted  !

I'd have had no idea how to do that, in fact how did you ?

 

But again, I'd say cleaning has little or no effect, if in doubt exchange it for a new one.

 

ct.p:

I'd have had no idea how to do that, in fact how did you ?

Ahhhhh.... it's pretty simple really - all you have to do is delete the links to your old images, i.e.

[ img ] Photobucket link [ /img ]

then insert the links to your new images

[ img ] uk-mkivs gallery link [ /img ]

 

Or do you mean you can't edit your post?