CRC MAF Cleaner FTW

[stattine]

Well took a trip up to the boat in the M3 last weekend.

Just out of town my car started accelerating on the freeway after I let off the throttle. Turned off the car thinking it was a stuck throttle. It ran fine for a while but started to persist and was idling at about 3k. I disconnected the battery and it ran fine for about 2 hours. but, it was still low to drop rpm's. It happened once more on the nearly 4 hour trip but was fixed by disconnecting the battery. It happened one more time yesterday, but not as bad.

After some searching I thought it might be the the throttle position sensor or the accelerator pedal assembly. After some more searching I thought I'd try 8 bucks of MAF cleaner.

Took it apart. sprayed the shit out of. let it dry for about 5 minutes in the sun this afternoon (freakin hot out) put it back in, let it dry for a beer's worth of time. Fired her up, and she's running awesome. I didnt really have enough time to see if there was any horsepower gains, but it always pays to try the cheap fix first

[Champ]

Heck yea - applies to any car with a MAF. ESPECIALLY if you run a K&N oiled filter...

[chadsci]

Thats great. I always try it before condemning a Mass air flow meter. We always use them when doing major tune ups like 30 and 40k services. Especially when they have a aftermarket air filter.

What type of boat do you have?

[Tj Hunter]

+1 this stuff ROCKS, used it on the M5's MAF's.

[Tj Hunter]

+1 this stuff ROCKS, I used it to clean the MAF's in the M5

[stattine]

27 ft sailboat up on leech lake. There are some great twisties up there too, If you don't mind taking the long way