I’ve pulled together some information that might be of interest. I didn’t know whether to put it into the main MAF thread but it’s slightly different so I thought I’d start a new thread
My MAFs needed changing. Like everyone else I didn’t want to pay main dealer prices so I was intending to go the VW route which most people seem to have had success with. But I was keen to try and find a bit more about them before putting them on my engine. I know that most cars seem to run fine but I wanted to know exactly what the difference was, I’m a bit retentive like that…
So after lots of phoning around I discovered that a friend of mine has a good contact in the Bosch tech department in Germany. A couple of weeks ago I managed to get hold of him and I had a long chat. I explained the problem and said that a lot of people were running the F 00C 2G2 032’s instead of the F 00C 2G2 029’s the car was built with, he said he’d look into it for me and call me back with some info. He got back to me a couple of days later and confirmed what most people have discovered already, the 032’s will work fine, the curve is the same but they will run about 4% richer than the 029’s
One thing led to another and I asked him what the possibility would be of sourcing some genuine 029’s. For obvious reasons I’m not going into too much detail, but yesterday a package arrived with 2 brand new shiny 029’s in it. I fitted them and the car is back to it’s old self, they bolted straight into the existing tubes and obviously had the tags for the plugs to engage with, they are genuine Bosch MAf’s as fitted to the car by BMW. I’ve attached a couple of pics showing how they arrived
The cost to me was about £115 each including shipping, slightly more than if I’d got the VW units, but way less than the £240 main dealer price. I may be able to get more if there was any interest. I’m not sure what the dealer’s price is in the USA? Realoem says $367? On this exchange rate they would work out to probably $250 + shipping. It may be of more interest to UK guys, I don’t know….
I hope no one minds me posting this, I’m not touting for business, just sharing some info and offering a possible source for genuine parts if there was any interest. I know the amount of work that went into sourcing and confirming that the VW units worked, and I’m not trying to undermine what’s been done. But if you believe the guy in Germany they appear to fuel slightly rich, personally I’m a lot happier fitting the correct part
My MAFs needed changing. Like everyone else I didn’t want to pay main dealer prices so I was intending to go the VW route which most people seem to have had success with. But I was keen to try and find a bit more about them before putting them on my engine. I know that most cars seem to run fine but I wanted to know exactly what the difference was, I’m a bit retentive like that…
So after lots of phoning around I discovered that a friend of mine has a good contact in the Bosch tech department in Germany. A couple of weeks ago I managed to get hold of him and I had a long chat. I explained the problem and said that a lot of people were running the F 00C 2G2 032’s instead of the F 00C 2G2 029’s the car was built with, he said he’d look into it for me and call me back with some info. He got back to me a couple of days later and confirmed what most people have discovered already, the 032’s will work fine, the curve is the same but they will run about 4% richer than the 029’s
One thing led to another and I asked him what the possibility would be of sourcing some genuine 029’s. For obvious reasons I’m not going into too much detail, but yesterday a package arrived with 2 brand new shiny 029’s in it. I fitted them and the car is back to it’s old self, they bolted straight into the existing tubes and obviously had the tags for the plugs to engage with, they are genuine Bosch MAf’s as fitted to the car by BMW. I’ve attached a couple of pics showing how they arrived
The cost to me was about £115 each including shipping, slightly more than if I’d got the VW units, but way less than the £240 main dealer price. I may be able to get more if there was any interest. I’m not sure what the dealer’s price is in the USA? Realoem says $367? On this exchange rate they would work out to probably $250 + shipping. It may be of more interest to UK guys, I don’t know….
I hope no one minds me posting this, I’m not touting for business, just sharing some info and offering a possible source for genuine parts if there was any interest. I know the amount of work that went into sourcing and confirming that the VW units worked, and I’m not trying to undermine what’s been done. But if you believe the guy in Germany they appear to fuel slightly rich, personally I’m a lot happier fitting the correct part
