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As you had it installed, I would say it's incumbent on the installer to ensure that the installation doesn't ruin your MAF or anything else as a consequence. Go back & make a fuss [;)]
 
I think you need to see what fault codes are being collected first - assuming K&N have sent out an overoiled filter, or the garage have added more oil to it before fitting, and its destroyed the MAF is a possibility, but there could be all sorts of other issues. I would have thought the filter would have to be very very heavily oiled to have caused a MAF failure in such a short run out to be honest.
 
Well it had been getting some stick on the dyno for 10-15mins, then on the 90min journey home it got thrashed a bit, then a couple of days later after about 10mins of letting warm up I floored it, then the incidents happened as explained. Wha'dya reckon?
 
ORIGINAL: NXI20 As you had it installed, I would say it's incumbent on the installer to ensure that the installation doesn't ruin your MAF or anything else as a consequence. Go back & make a fuss [;)]
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Don't worry, you can be sure of that. I've already made a major fuss over the phone, moaning and whining about the way they fitted the springs, about the power loss, that they can't know what they're doing, and that if the car's not perfect after Saturday they'll have a bad name all over the internet. [8D] [:)] [8D]
 
If a MAF has been contaminated with oil/carbon you can clean it by removing and carefully spraying the very thin sensor wire with an electronic-cleaning solvent available for a few quid from Maplins (you can also buy specific MAF Sensor cleaner in cans but I've always used the Maplins stuff).
 
It's a Hot-film MAF, not Hot-wire. You can try a contact cleaner, but in my experience it's a temporary fix (if at all). If you want someone independent to read out the fault codes, drop me an email as I can do that for you.
 
ORIGINAL: Richard Hamilton It's a Hot-film MAF, not Hot-wire. You can try a contact cleaner, but in my experience it's a temporary fix (if at all). If you want someone independent to read out the fault codes, drop me an email as I can do that for you.
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I'm still not sure if the MAF Sensor is gone though. The car was behaving itself after I turned it off and back on, and although I wasn't footing it completely, it was still taking a bit of a thrashing up to about 5500rpm...
 
Only the diagnostic code search will reveal the true cause, but 5500rpm is the point where the variocam operates, so maybe its related to that if it shuts down above that rev figure ?
 
The dyno beforehand showed a 36 brake increase, but they say that after a few hundred miles when the system has learnt about the new induction and Remap that the brake increase can be upto +46. When I drive the car now I can feel that there is definately more power there..!
 
But what was the cause of the sudden power loss & CEL? Were the dyno runs done on the same day, before and after? I just find it a little difficult to believe the claims, especially when you compare it with what's involved in a Porsche X50 kit. New heads, cams, pistons, manifolds, remap etc, etc, and it results in 25bhp. It would worry me where they got the 40bhp from, and the long term effects.
 
Error code 5522, they say it was a CAN error, but they also said that my car doesn't have CAN, so they don't know why it came up. When I looked at the screen it was under the 'PSM' section... Also on a non-Porsche diagnostics kit, the error came up as PSM. Another thing that I noticed when I was thrashing it up a hill the PSM turned itself off.
 
Morning chaps Sid here,head technician here at RSJ. Just to clarify,seeing as no-one else did,that we are not connected to Paramount in any way. They do rent a unit next to ours,they moved in 2 years ago, but we are not connected. I myself moved to RSJ from OPC Hatfield after 20 years of service to the OPC network. Paul,did the problem with the car get resolved in the end ? Sid
 
ORIGINAL: Paul James Error code 5522, they say it was a CAN error, but they also said that my car doesn't have CAN, so they don't know why it came up. When I looked at the screen it was under the 'PSM' section... Also on a non-Porsche diagnostics kit, the error came up as PSM. Another thing that I noticed when I was thrashing it up a hill the PSM turned itself off.
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5522 is a CAN communication error, but it only applies to 2002-on cars. You sometimes get PSM errors if the MAF is on the way out, as the signal it generates is implausible to the PSM based on the DME outputs. Your car does have a CAN-BUS.
 
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