Many of those who have driven with me in my car have heard me complain that it lacks acceleration. Granted, it is only a 90hp diesel car, but damn has it been slow. Well, over the last months I’ve been reading up on possible fixes for my car’s woes, and it all seemed to point toward the Mass Air-Flow sensor going awry. Last Sunday, I met up with one of my co-worker’s friends (oddly enough, the guy who’s job I “stole”, but that is another story I guess) and he is also the owner of a TDI Volkwagon. We chatted about the merits of biodeisel and other things, and I brought up my car’s poor acceleration. He immediately said it is 95% certain that my car’s MAF sensor was gunked up and he gave me the link to a site where I could get a good deal on a new sensor.
It just arrived last night and 30 minutes later, I was on the roads. OMG… how I missed being able to acelerate! Tom is happy once more. Now I guess I should do some other auto maintanance. Still, I am hapy with the money spent. Yay!
-Tom