Some of u may know I have been convinced for several months now that my car was flat and that I must have a boost leak or some sensor playing up. Anyhow, despite my best efforts, it remained so I tried the other day unplugging the MAF but had no discernible difference. BUT yesterday without any change the car has began performing again with good power through the range and comes on fairly early aboot 2500 rpm. Eh? Self fixing car?

skodas very own herbie ?

did the maf ever get changed?

Phil i'am down in greenock if you want i've got a fault code reader woulden't mind pluging it in and seeing what codes come up if any

No I've never changed the maf. I was thinking in doing it. But all seems well so think I'll keep my £50 squid.

And cheers for offer of code reader, but I have one, ecu is clear..

Did the car idle rough mate with irratic idle my car is like that now and if I unplug the maf there is no diffeRence

With mine ive had the hybrid ko3s conversion etc and i was un happy how lazy the car was and was thinking of selling the car because of that reason, tried alsorts anyway long story short i had the epc light come on and the car would tick over for about 5 seconds and die, unplugged maf it would run put a new bosch one on its a differant car now spools up realy quickly an puts a smile on my face it feels 260 bhp now ive heard the mafs can cause alot of issues obviously mine didnt bring any faults up untill it died otherwise id of changed it months ago, id change it for piece of mind

Sounds like you cured a bad MAF connection. Unplugging the MAF wouldn't do anything as the connection was already bad. Plugging it in again removed any corrosion/crud from the contacts.