Loading ...I noticed long ago, your skills and abilities and animal spirits are useless if you are on the wrong side of the gov’t agenda. For example, you can loads of animal spirits in manufacturing, but the Gov’t in the USA is against you. You have to take your ambition to China. You can be a real estate worker, aircraft worker, fabricator the gov’t supports your ambitions. You deal with solar panels? Merry Christmas. The gov’t picks the winners and losers. Are you into climate change business, gov’t loves you.
My climate change Mass Airflow Sensor went bad. Check engine light. Hard starting and finally no start. I went on the Internet. I unplugged the Sensor, started right up. This is a sure sign of a shorted mass airflow sensor. The reason it starts with it off is the computer sees no mass air signal and replaces it with an internal memory fake signal to use. This will let it start and will run until you change it.
Climate change: Looks like. Welfare for electronics parts fabricators, parts distributers, parts delivery jobs, parts retailers and auto mechanic welfare, to diagnose remove and install. Also auto towing people get some gravy. The new car dealers also love the extra diagnostic work, and the parts are very expensive and not really needed.
Parts: You can bypass the MAF sensor, and allow the O2 sensor to calculate how much air is needed.
When you unplug the MAF, the computer goes to a default value stored in your memory. Your fuel economy will probably suffer a little bit, but no big issues. You’re OK for a week or two, but replace the MAF with a proper TDI unit.
If you are not aware of this, you call a tow truck, more money. One day my sons car won’t start. I figured a bad fuel pump. I smacked the bottom of the tank no luck. I was ready to call my tow guy. $75 at least. Told my son go on the computer, search 2003 Malibu won’t start.
Instructions: Turn key on. “security light” will start blinking. Go away, leave the car alone blinking for 10 minutes. Come back, turn ignition off, turn back on, and the car starts. If you or your mechanic doesn’t KNOW this? And he goes crazy scanning and testing? Plus the tow? More welfare, and its like you are paying taxes to support other people.
And who the hell asked for an alarm system? Or anti lock brakes? Or air bags? And tire pressure sensors, and all the other free crap, and nothing is free.