Changed the MAF.......
Bought a second hand MAF and put it on but made absolutely no difference whatsoever!! F-ing thing. It now comes up with fault 12 ALL the time and is still missing when idling, as well as going into limp home mode which limits the boost. I used these scotch lock things to cut into the 3 wires going to the MAF and ran seperate wires and spade terminals to the connections on the MAF to do away with the block connector, but no difference. Maybe the ecu needs reset :?: :?: . how do you do it exactly? Ive disconnected the battery for a couple of minutes but that didnt work :? .
Back to the temperature gauge problem, i earthed the single wire going to the gauge sender and the gauge shot up to max, as it should, so i guess that confirms the sender is knackered. After the car being idling for aroung 10 mins i got a resistance of 160 ohms through it.Is this normal? I noticed now that it seems to idle ok when cold but starts to miss bad as it warms up so i think gti r 163 is right about changing the senders as maybe its just running rich cos the car thinks its cold. How the hell do you get at them to change them, is it from underneath :?: :!:
They are great cars alright, just when they start going wrong........... :evil: