The Pierburg air mass meter 7.22684.08.0 has been quite a popular replacement of the Bosch air mass meter used in many of Volkswagen’s TDI engines, which is known to be susceptible to faults.
Except for a few exceptions the 7.22684.08.0 mainly fit for the 1.9 TDI used by Audi, Seat, Skoda and VW. However, there was no airmass meter replacement equivalent to Bosch’s quality for the 2.5 TDI, FSI and 1.8 T (exact vehicle list).

Finally Pierburg offers now also an air mass sensor for those models, called 7.22684.10.0. Same as the 7.22684.08.0 the 7.22684.10.0 uses a very precise hot-film sensor which is quite more accurate and durable than the cheap Asian replicas and much cheaper than the Bosch airmassmeter, which costs >200€.

The MAF-Shop offers the Pierburg 7.22684.10.0 airflow meter for €99.90 incl. taxes (+shipping):

Pierburg air mass meter 7.22684.10.0 for € 99.90

This offer also includes an installation kit, which you will need since the Bosch air mass meter is secured with special torx screws.

The installation requires no re-prorgramming. It’s pretty simple plug&play or in this case plug&drive

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