Vstar
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Hi all,
had a bit of a problem with the freelander whilst on holiday and towing caravan. Loss of power on bottom and and burning rich. Was hoping it was a loose turbo hose, but it wasn't so gave RAC a call. They plugged their laptop in and diagnosed that there was an error with the MAF sensor.
Anyway got home today and managed to remove the MAF sensor using some mole grips to give it a clean (it is held in by 5 POINT TORX SECURITY SCREWS WTF!!! Mental note never buy a BMW!!!)
Anyway refitted and it is running a bit better but still a little smokey. Anyway I plugged in my cheap EBAY OBD2 thingy via laptop. It connected and shows various readings, but no Errors and interestingly no MAF Sensor data. One program showed no MAF sensor at all, the other program just showed a reading of 0.0
This was different to what the RAC man was showing, obviously his was a better OBD jobby, but it was showing a MAF sensor error, and giving live data from the sensor, though it was obviously not reading properly.
Does anyone else have any experience of this. I presume that since I have removed it for cleaning that it has now given up the ghost completely as it is showing no readings.
Either way I'll unplug it properly and have another look later, but like I said I'd be interested to know what others think.
Cheers,
Vstar
had a bit of a problem with the freelander whilst on holiday and towing caravan. Loss of power on bottom and and burning rich. Was hoping it was a loose turbo hose, but it wasn't so gave RAC a call. They plugged their laptop in and diagnosed that there was an error with the MAF sensor.
Anyway got home today and managed to remove the MAF sensor using some mole grips to give it a clean (it is held in by 5 POINT TORX SECURITY SCREWS WTF!!! Mental note never buy a BMW!!!)
Anyway refitted and it is running a bit better but still a little smokey. Anyway I plugged in my cheap EBAY OBD2 thingy via laptop. It connected and shows various readings, but no Errors and interestingly no MAF Sensor data. One program showed no MAF sensor at all, the other program just showed a reading of 0.0
This was different to what the RAC man was showing, obviously his was a better OBD jobby, but it was showing a MAF sensor error, and giving live data from the sensor, though it was obviously not reading properly.
Does anyone else have any experience of this. I presume that since I have removed it for cleaning that it has now given up the ghost completely as it is showing no readings.
Either way I'll unplug it properly and have another look later, but like I said I'd be interested to know what others think.
Cheers,
Vstar
