[s-cars] Re: MAF cost (was: Bucking Bronco (was: HEL

[Mihnea Cotet]

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...