am I being bumped here??

[Paradox1]

My car has lit up like a Xmas tree,traction and engine management light have been on for a few weeks now.took it to my usual mechanic to be scanned.turns out the maf won't flow more than 0.005g so seems pretty obvious its dead. Now I was expecting a replacement to be £50ish.spoke to the main guy there and he said £200! Never replaced one before but it ain't hard at all.when you get a replacement,do you just get the sensor on its own or the housing with it? Surely 200 is a but much or am I just being tight?

 

[jojo]

I'm using an aftermarket MAF which work perfectly, around £57 inc vat. 2 screws and a connector, job done!

 

[Paradox1]

Where from jojo,200+ is liquid gauge money.lol how long have you had your maf btw

 

[s33nyboy12]

Olympic discount on at gsp and euro car parts. Maf £67 Bosch genuine. Two screws , takes 15 minutes , 30 mins max. Easy peasy

Cheers, sean

 

[Prawn]

Marty, excuse my ignorance, but is yours an AGU or AUM? i honestly forget!

if it's an AGU, Audi will no longer to them on exchance, and it's £240 for a brand new one. GSF will do them on exchange though for about £80-90.

if it's AUM, then audi will still do them on exchange, and they're £80 and you hand your dead one back.

 

[Prawn]

ohps, you mention traction control, it's an AUM then you're being mugged!

 

[jojo]

Where from jojo,200+ is liquid gauge money.lol how long have you had your maf btw

Olympic discount on at gsp and euro car parts. Maf £67 Bosch genuine. Two screws , takes 15 minutes , 30 mins max. Easy peasy

Cheers, sean

I'd go with this for the £10 difference to be honest. I get mine from my local motor factor. On my third one after 60k miles, old one still works @95%, that 5% gave me 6-8bhp on the rollers.

 

[Paradox1]

Damn,I knew something wasn't right.thanks for all your help guys.ill go Audi/vw and get one on exchange

 

[vrbob]

Bought mine from eurocarparts on monday as was having the same issues with lights on the dash etc. Its a proper Bosch one that the stealers want over £130 for.

i used the code games25 which gets you 25% off plus exchanged my old MAF made the total cost of the new MAF £68inc VAT

Hope that helps

 

[knoxie]

sorry to hijack but why do they exchange? are they reconditional or is there gold in it or something haha

 

[vrbob]

they recondition them and then resell as of course Bosch need all the money they can get lol