Warning Dont Change Turbo Before You Do This!

[aafs]

Thanks for the advice I know these cars are suspect to carbon deposits on the vanes , I'm not shy of giving the old girl a thrash !

 

I got the car stripped out to see if the inlet manifold was clogged up ... And to my surprise it wasn't too bad at all , after several hours at the mechanics they insisted that it was the turbo at fault .

 

Now I've allready put a brand new spanking turbo a few days earlier and I was quite frustrated as my problem was still here . Mechanic said my MAF and boost sensor was ok , but I was doubtfull as I had this problem prior to changing the turbo, feeling like a rabbit WTF?!!!

 

I decided the only thing left to do is change the sensors as the fault was electrical , I used to buy Euro car parts for my Air flow meter as the price was affordable , so after spending a small fortune what's the point in cutting corners now ?

 

So off I went to VW to get original parts as ford are alot more expensive , ( ford galaxy is all VW under the bonnet anyway! )

 

 

[seatkid]

A good reminder that 90% of the time, gutless car syndrome is often if not usually caused by a faulty MAF sensor. They slowly drift into oblivion with age and the performance drops slowly over many weeks so its not obvious to the driver.

 

I've noticed a tendency to blame the vane actuator and, of late, the turbo itself in more recent threads before even considering the MAF sensor. In my experience, the sequence of elimination should always be MAF sensor first.

 

There are many MAF sensor variants around. They are specific to each engine. Thats why its important to get exactly the correct part no for the engine. Fleabay in particular is notorious for supplying wrong or faulty (sneaky reconditioned) sensors. Not worth the hassle in my opinion - just pay the dealer his