The MAF Shop has a new partner shop for the Baltic region (Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia) with the very creative name ‘Gaisa masas mērītāji‘.
They offer the same air mass meter as the MAF Shop and offer very fast and cooperative customer support.
There is a lot of confusion about the airflow meter with the label >PBT-GF30< and the reason why you are reading this article is probably because this is exactly what it says on your air mass meter…
The reason you haven’t found a dealer where you can buy this part is that PBT GF 30 is not a model or part number but the abbreviation for Polybutylene terephthalate and 30% glass fiber, the plastic used in all air mass meter housings – regardless of whether it’s Bosch, VDO or Pierburg.
Often the actual part number is on the other side of the housing. Sometimes this is exactly the side you can’t see when the unit is still installed, so you will have to dismount it from the air tube which takes approx. 5 minutes (check the air flow meter installation video to see how it’s done).
Also, at the MAF-Shop you can find the correct airmassmeter by choosing your car model. If you’re not sure, you can also directly contact customer support via email to inquire which air mass meter will fit your vehicle.
I receive almost every day emails from Chinese merchants who want to offer their car parts, especially airflow meters.
Though they have no problem to use Bosch numbers as if they were in a cooperation with Bosch and some manufacturers like RIYI, use packaging designs that are astonishingly similar to the original Bosch one, I haven’t actually seen any Bosch air mass meter fakes.
The MAF Shop just released an English version of their video about air mass meters. It gives you a quick general explanation about airmassmeter and installation instructions.
Check it out:
The MAF Service GmbH – the company behind the MAF-Shop – is situated in Berlin, the capital of Germany, but distributes their air mass meters worldwide.
Their website and customer service is available in German, English, Spanish and French.
But how does it work when you order an airmass meter from somewhere else in the world?
The payment process via credit card or PayPal is pretty much possible from anywhere, bank transfers are also available – in the EU they’re even for free.
Also, if you have the air mass meter shipped to somewhere outside the EU, like the United States, Canada,… the German VAT is automatically deducted. That’s 19%!
For example, the Bosch air mass meter 0280 217 114 which fits a lot of Mercedes models, costs instead of 199.90€ only 168€ (you divide the amount including VAT by 1.19 to deduct the German VAT, don’t worry though, the online shop does it automatically for you).
If you want your air mass meter to be delivered within the EU and you have a VAT ID, like most business in the European Union do, you can also deduct the 19%.
The main shipping courier that is used, is DHL which delivers almost to anywhere in the world and is pretty cheap. Here are the details, but let’s have a quick overview:
Don’t forget that you might have to pay customs if you have the air mass meter shipped somewhere outside the EU.
A few years ago some Volkswagen freaks experimented with replacing the Bosch air mass meter of their 1.9 liter TDI engine with the much cheaper Pierburg air mass sensor 7.22684.07.0, which is the Genuine air mass meter for almost all Mercedes-Benz CDI’s and noticed that the engine worked just as fine as it did with the Bosch MAF. Another advantage than the Pierburg airflow sensor being much cheaper was that it lasted much longer.
The only problem that the VW enthusiasts encountered was that the Pierburg air mass sensor 72268407 didn’t really fit because the plastic housing was a bit different to the original air mass meter. Of course, money makes people creative and all kind of tricks were used to keep the sensor in place. (more…)
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Many customers tell us that friends or internet forums recommend to clean the air mass meter with cleaning chemicals designed for removing brake dust or other cleaning solvents.
It should be said that these customers contact us anyhow to buy a new airmassmeter.
Why should the cleaning process work anyhow? The most common reason air mass meters lose their performance or even stop working at all is that they slowly get dirty. That is also why most of the time you will notice a slow loss of performance and increase in fuel consumption (In case your airflow meter should abruptly stop working cleaning won’t help anyways).
Hey guys and girl, welcome to our Air Mass Meter-Blog!
We’re one of the leading experts for air mass meters and will try to share all our knowledge with you about car parts.
We will be mainly translating the (awesome) blog posts of the German Luftmassenmesser-Blog, which has a huge load of information about car parts for German cars like BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen (or Volkswagon as Americans would say).
So start up your engines and get ready for some cool blog posts 