How sensitive is your MAF?
I ask this because every time I mess with my MAF it seems that it goes bad, I've had to replace it 3 or 4 times now in the last year? Everytime I replace it, my CEL goes away, but as soon as I either change out something in the air filter that requires me to take the maf off a CEL pops up?

Ideas?!?!

 

well what does the cel say? did you even get the codes read?

hook up vagcom and see if your maf is actualy bad. you should be at about 2-5g/s at idle and around 170g/s near redline, and it should be pretty linear in between those.

considering a copy of vagcom+adapter costs about as much as 2 new maf sensors, and i bet you didnt have 4 go bad in a year, you could have saved yourself alot of money if you had done this first.

 

Damn I gotta get me a copy of vag-com and an adapter. You guys have all the fun. Time to dig out that old laptop to see if it still works.

 

Do you use a cone filter that needs to be oiled? Why do you keep messing with it?