From a VW driver

How to clean the MAF

 

That's a good way to clean it. Never spray the carb cleaner directly on the wire. That's a quick way to kill the MAF.

 

does this improve something? not a flame just a ?

 

Looks scary. Knowing how fragile those things are, running any fluid by it would be a little iffy. I guess if you have a problem narrowed down to the MAFS, you really got nothing to loose.

Has any maxima owners tried this?

Brian

 

I took my MAF out, blasted it with electrical parts cleaner, a fluid that doesn't leave any residue. There was just some black carbon on the screen and some inside, not much else. Polished up the screen so it shine gold. Put it back. Done.

Last time I actually saw my MAF was 80K miles ago.

Matt93SE takes the credit for this one

DW

 

Thats a pretty strange way to clean a MAF sensor. Air intake cleaner sprayed onto the sensor works perfectly. Just one squirt and it's clean. It dries instantly too. I'd imagain because it's called Air Intake Cleaner, that it's made for most everything in the Air Intake System on cars. Electrical parts cleaner is also an excellent choice.

 

Cranoline is what the techs use in recording studios. Any cr@p on equipment there shows up as noise in the final product, so clean with no residue is standard procedure. Radio Shack might not have it, but an electronics parts house certainly will.