Golf V R32 :: CEL Comes On - At Acceleration Cut Off Completely
Apr 14, 2009
Our R32 has 1680 miles on it, yesterday my wife & son drove it about 35 miles to drop off my Focus ST at the dealer......as they were doing a U-Turn it bogged almost to a stall. then recovered At the light when my son went to accelerate it cut almost completely off then surged and went forward....
When they restarted it 20 minutes later to leave the dealership...it threw a CEL. Drove fine all the way to the shop, dealer, then home.
Diagnosis at Euro Technik was bad MAF, wife took it right to the dealer, (went back to stock tune 1st), Dealer confirmed a diagnosis and ordered a part. My dealer had no issue with the V-Flow being on the car and actually, my Service Advisor has an APR tune on his 2008 GTI....no worries. They interestingly enough will not work on REVO tuned cars until the tune is gone....didn't elaborate to me, but the Service Mgr is British & very cool about mods. No R32 MAF in stock...I guess that is a good thing? Not for us, but hey.
I will go back to the 93 tune as soon as they put the new MAF in. Point is the hiccup seems to be a combination of things and the Valve could only be 1 issue...just info....food for thought as it were. I gave her my GLI and I will drive the R until the part comes in as she hates any light on.......
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