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Faulty MAP sensor Symptoms??


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MAF sort of take the places of a MAP, Both just read air flow into the engine, You normally dont have both together.(there are some that do). The part your thinking of is just a boost pressure reader. For it to be a MAP(manifold aboslute pressure) it got to read from the manifold after the butterfly. When plumbed in there you get postive and negative reading(force induction) and just negative(N/A cars).

MAP sensors are rated in bar pressure rating. so a 1 bar sensor cant read super/turbocharger cars because atmospheric pressure is about 1 bar it can only read below that (ideal for N/A cars that only suck)

You need a 2 bar MAP sensor to read force induction cars, a 2 BAR map sensor can read about 1 BAR below and 1BAR above, Upto 15psi if you running more boost you would need a higher rating one!

But them reading do depend on the atmospheric pressure of the day!

To answer your question, your car doesn't have one.

(sorry if the reply a bit long but i'm stuck in a intercafe and it chucking it with rain! 169144-ok.gif)

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  • 2 weeks later...

I think I know what you're talking about - on the S3 its part no

038 906 051 D

Well on mine it was at least.

It also has a Bosch no of 0 261 230 073

I have one sitting on my desk - my hose leak was misdiagnosed as a faulty one of these so I changed it for no reason. Cost €120 IIRC. Its been sitting here for a year so a bit dusty. If it fits, want me to send it to ya? Ooohh S3 Part! Could be good for 1/2 a horse tongue.gifwink.gif

Symptoms? Unplug it and see! Violently jerky reactions when coming on/off the throttle as I remember. Car ran disgustingly!

Some bad pics:

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Actually, I checked ETKA and (w/out the D) it appears to be the same part tongue.gif Thanks for the offer, but I've other problems now suicide.gif This morning the TQ decided to start saving error codes smashfreakB.gif APPARENTLY it keeps giving a cylinder 1 faulty coilpack code, BUT, it only does so in 5th (4th twice) gear and only once I get the revs up between 4-5k confused.gif Mechanic thought the worn/cracked wiring to the coilpacks may be causing it, so he taped them up, but it still came back crazy.gif So tomorrow I'll be taking her back in frown.gif Gonna post it up in the Tech forum in a minute suicide.gif

Thx beerchug.gif

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Ha, ha smirk.gif Anyway, it appears to be fixed now, but they had to change the coilpacks AND the plugs confused.gif I'll post pics later but what they showed me was my 4 plugs, 1 w/insulator cracked and chipped, 2 w/insulator "seperated" just a bit from the electrode, and 1 was OK smashfreakB.gif So what I'M wondering is, can a plug kill a coilpack? I know a coilpack can kill a plug and suspect that the worst plug was in cylinder #1 (Which was giving the error code) but Audi seemed to insunuate that the problem was due to me installing "Aftermarket" plugs slap.gif But the plugs were Beru Ultra X Platinum plugs FFS and only had 8-9k kms on them crazy.gif Any ideas??

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  • 7 years later...
dont listen to tobes49 he is talking total crap. MAF and MPA are not the same thing, MAF senses air density change and MPA senses air pressure in the inlet manifold caused by engine load demand .. and you get both together in diesels. ****

Given the thread is 7 years old, I would imagine it's not an issue! :rolleyes:

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  • 5 weeks later...

they will miss fire with a bad map sensor on them but you first need to have the computer scanned to see what trouble codes it will give you,other wise you may start buying parts for it that it doesn't really need,if you buy a scanner you will be able to get the codes the same as any one else would be able to and the find out what they mean,that might save you from spending a lot of money on it,good luck.

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