[V8] theoretical surgical question: The Green Horney

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

Actually a MAF for my A4 ended up costing me less than 70 bucks and took 10 minutes to change. This was straight from the dealer.


---- Dave Saad <dsaad at icehouse.net> wrote: 
> I have heard a lot of VW complaints of MAF sensors going bad.  Maybe  
> it is the same part?
> It is probably easy to change, but I doubt the part is cheap.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:13 AM, Roger Woodbury wrote:
> 
> > The 100CS has been running worse and worse since it returned from  
> > its epic
> > 120,000 uber maintenance.  The check engine light has been coming  
> > on, and
> > after a while, going off. When the engine was restarted while warm,  
> > the
> > check engine would come on again.
> >
> > The car would have a definite hesitation especially while climbing  
> > hills
> > under acceleration.  Lately my wife tells me that the old dear was  
> > losing
> > power almost entirely.  Sometimes it felt as though it needed a  
> > plug or
> > wires, but those were new last fall...I did them.
> >
> > Yesterday, the car got to stand still long enough to visit the  
> > wrench.  The
> > computer says, (I guess), Air Mass Sensor, although my wife's  
> > explanation
> > (since she took it), was "Air Something".
> >
> > I had originally thought it was an O2 sensor, and I didn't think  
> > the system
> > even had an air mass sensor of the sort that was in the Porsche 928.
> >
> > Any diagnostic thoughts?  The car is going back for its surgery  
> > tomorrow,
> > and hopefully will be fine from thence forward.  How bad will this  
> > one be,
> > doctors?
> >
> > Roger
> >
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