MAF cost (was: Bucking Bronco (was: HEL

[Mihnea Cotet]

Patrick, we were talking about a Porsche 928 MAF that's worth 950 Euro +
21% sales tax in Belgium, possibly a lot more in the US, not the "simple"
RS2 MAF that's not even needed (for tuning of whatever) on an UrS car or
200q20v.

Mihnea

At 17:11 8/07/2003 -0700, Patrick Anderson wrote:
>I just got the RS2 MAF from Scott M. for less than the stock MAF at many
>places. It is a Porsche Bosch part, off of the 968 I think. Afterall,
>Porsche did develop the RS2 engine.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mihnea Cotet" <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
>To: <mlped at qwest.net>; <brett at cloud9.net>; <200q20v at audifans.com>;
><sscalmanini at yahoo.com>
>Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>; <Audi20V_Kruemmer at yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:39 AM
>Subject: Re: MAF cost (was: Bucking Bronco (was: HEL
>
>
> > Mike, that particular MAF I was speaking about comes from an official
>Bosch
> > center and is sold by Bosch with a 1-year warranty as a Bosch part, thus
>no
> > issues with fake/badly rebuilt items here AFAIK. Unfortunately I don't
>know
> > of anyone either who can rebuild the MAFs, all I can suppose is that Bosch
> > is refurbishing them and then reselling them...
> >
> > I'll ask for an exchange PN for your 928 MAF and keep you posted, it would
> > be cool indeed to be able to source them as exchange but I'm not sure if
> > that would work given the relatively low sales volume and (I assume) low
> > failure rate....
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Mihnea
> >
> > At 08:29 8/07/2003 -0600, mlp qwest wrote:
> > >Mihnea -
> > >
> > >Two things, I have from time to time heard "rumors" there were private
>party
> > >(i.e. non-Bosch) persons or places that would attempt to "rebuilt"
> > >defective/broken hot wire MAFs.  So far, my limited attempts to verify
>&/or
> > >locate such a service have failed to find any such person or business.
>By
> > >all means, if some one knows of one, it would be great if they could
>share
> > >it with the lists.
> > >
> > >2nd, I unfortunately now happen to have a brand new larger MAF which
> > >succumbed to Hot Wire failure in testing.  Do you have any idea if the
>Bosch
> > >special parts "exchange" program might also apply to the larger 86mm
>928/WMB
> > >M5 Bosch PN# 0-280-214-001 MAF as well?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Mike
> > >
> > >*******
> > >Message: 6
> > >Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 23:28:06 +0200
> > >To: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>,
> > >         Scalmanini Steve <sscalmanini at yahoo.com>,
> > >From: Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
> > >Subject: Re: MAF cost (was: Bucking Bronco (was: HELLLLLP! Sudden odd
> > >   symptom))
> > >
> > >It is the exact same MAF, possibly rebuilt but for a much nicer price
>than
> > >the original one... Apparently it isn't available in the US but I'll try
>to
> > >work something out with Scott M in order to have them available in the
>US!
> > >Unfortunately it isn't hot film but that's not needed anyway...
> > >
> > >Mihnea
> > >
> > >At 17:25 1/07/2003 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> > > >At 9:15 PM +0200 7/1/03, Mihnea Cotet wrote:
> > > >>Steve,
> > > >>
> > > >>AFAIK there is a Bosch special part number for an exchange MAF for our
> > > >>engines, the number is 0 986 280 120 and I've paid 205 Euro tax
>included
> > > >>for one, about 6 months ago when mine went south...
> >
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