[Vwdiesel] MAF life

[S. Shourds]

It seemed like the TDI was gradually slowing down lately and next thing 
I know, it's barely keeping up with traffic and getting passed on hills 
(this is Dallas, so that's not saying as much as it might elsewhere).  I 
changed the air filter, cleaned the dirt, paper scraps, etc. out of the 
snow screen then broke down and did the VAG-COM MAF check.  Sure enough, 
it's the dreaded warp field collapse.  The MAF is completely dead.  It's 
only got 50,000 miles on it.  I'd somehow thought that they were 
supposed to last longer than that.  Is that really what everyone's been 
getting out of them?

The good things are:  they are down to $90 now (volume discount); it 
wasn't a clogged intake manifold which, while a free repair, is 
time-consuming and nasty to do; and it didn't blow the head, which every 
other part failure from the belt to the tail light gasket seems to do to 
me. 

In the mean time, I guess I'll not be doing any speeding....

-Shalyn