So i was on my way to my "job" (letting the in-laws dogs out) today around noon with my 10 month old son in my car. about 1/3 of the way to my inlaws house my car starts acting like it did when water got to the MAF. intermittent losses of power, generally like the engine is randomly turning on and off.

 

the route i take to my inlaws is also on the way to my old garage, so i knew i had to skip out on the dogs for a while and head on over to the garage.

 

on the way there i had to keep the pedal to the floor in 2nd gear just to keep the RPMs high enough to stop the engine from stalling out.

 

right at the intersection the garage is at i was on a steep hill at a red light! so i put it in neutral and reved it to keep it from shutting down. eventually it shut down at the redlight so i kept it off until the light turned green.

 

light turned green and i floored it to the garage and it shut down again right as i pulled into the bay.

 

we ran a diagnistic on it (the CEL set after a while) and found that the MAF was bad. the Genisis diagnostic reader showed that the MAF was stuck at reading .5 g/s (or .05, i don't remember).

 

well, 3.5 hours, 1 new MAF sensor, and 370 bucks later, my car's running fine. Hey, we'll see if the 17mpg changes any, who knows how long it's been reading wrong.

 

 

(and for anyone who was wondering what i did with my son for 3.5 hours while i fixed the car, my sister came and picked him up and took him home after about 45 minutes.)

aren't you the guy who started the anti-mpg thread?

aren't you the guy who started the anti-mpg thread?

 

HAHA, yes. i started that infamous thread.

 

 

 

but notice how nonchalantly i mentioned it. i'm not complaning about it, i simply said that we'll see if it changes. i'm not opposed to getting better mpg, i'm just tired of new members all thinking that they're car is special and we have some magical cure for bad mpg.

 

but thats off topic and i'd prefer this not to leave this forum.