jhtanstaaf
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2000
- Location
- Simsbury, CT USA
So, my car gives me the "I'm not a turbo anymore" performance and lights up the CEL. I take it to my kindly dealer who figures out that the ECU is telling him the MAF is bad & the EGR is reading low. OK I says to him, fix it...well maybe we can do it tomorrow, or the day after, surely not later than the middle of the week & would you like to rent a replacement car because yours is not safe to drive. (True story, Danbury VW in Danbury CT)
No thank you says I. Instead I call Mitchell VW in Canton CT who says bring it in & we'll look at it in the morning. Sure enough they do & it's the MAF. Nice guy calls & says the good news is we know what the problem is. Bad news is the part's not here & it's $450 to replace it. But, here's a phone # at VWoA to call & your VIN #. Tell them you're not happy and maybe they'll do something for you to cut the cost. After all even though it's got 35K on it, it's only 9 months old.
I call the nice lady at VWoA who has no idea at all what a MAF sensor is but agrees that perhaps there is something VW could do. She's to get back to me Monday with their answer. Meantime, Mitchell's gets the part from another dealer in NY and it's fixed and ready to go (well before Danbury would have even looked at it!).
So now I wait for VWoA's answer. But, there are some threads here indicating that the MAF is covered by the emissions warranty. (In addition to the normal emissions stuff, I have the NE Emissions "package".) Does anyone have a definitive answer to whether the MAF is covered under the emissions package?
Thanks
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Jim
CUM CATAPULTAE PROSCRIPTAE ERUNT TUM SOLI PROSCRIPTI CATAPULTAS HABEBUNT.
(When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults....)
No thank you says I. Instead I call Mitchell VW in Canton CT who says bring it in & we'll look at it in the morning. Sure enough they do & it's the MAF. Nice guy calls & says the good news is we know what the problem is. Bad news is the part's not here & it's $450 to replace it. But, here's a phone # at VWoA to call & your VIN #. Tell them you're not happy and maybe they'll do something for you to cut the cost. After all even though it's got 35K on it, it's only 9 months old.
I call the nice lady at VWoA who has no idea at all what a MAF sensor is but agrees that perhaps there is something VW could do. She's to get back to me Monday with their answer. Meantime, Mitchell's gets the part from another dealer in NY and it's fixed and ready to go (well before Danbury would have even looked at it!).
So now I wait for VWoA's answer. But, there are some threads here indicating that the MAF is covered by the emissions warranty. (In addition to the normal emissions stuff, I have the NE Emissions "package".) Does anyone have a definitive answer to whether the MAF is covered under the emissions package?
Thanks
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Jim
CUM CATAPULTAE PROSCRIPTAE ERUNT TUM SOLI PROSCRIPTI CATAPULTAS HABEBUNT.
(When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults....)