Can a bad MAF cause a car to shutdown ? i need help, i drilled for a hood pin and a little bit of metal chards went down the air bod then i used a magnet to retreve the shards do you think it might of dammaged the MAF, could this be the result of my car shutting down?


please help its dangerous. i cant drive my car

 

how did metal shavings get into an air box with a cover???? And why hood pins on a cobalt??

 

remote start hood pin. we had to take the intake apart just the first section.

 

ah.....What type of cobalt do you have?? 2.4, 2.2, tc....If you have a bad maf sensor it can cause the car to act weird and even shut down....MAfs are very very sensitive

 

2006 cobalt supercharge 2.0

 

oh thats not good, if it gets into the supercharger your pretty much screwed :S

 

you mean my supercharger is effed and thats why my car is shutting down?

 

I dont think hes saying that nessisaraly but metal shavings can harm your supercharger. You have to relize inside your blower are ceramic screws that are close together.. little metal shavings can get into that and damage them and get down ur manifold and into your motor so you have little metal shavings bouncing around inside your motor up and all over. witch is not good. someone correct me if im wrong im just saying this off of comon sense and half knowledge of a motor.

you should of..
1.) taken your hood off.
2.) took a towel or some sort of cover and put it on your motor.
3.) not do it at all why do u need hood pins again?..lol

 

i know what you guys are saying but my car feel fine and sounds fine, it will shut down and wont start back up until the BCM completely shuts down. so i have to open a door and shut it and wait till the interior lights and gauges is completely off then starts back up like a charm.

 

fixed

 

Hmm, thats odd.. I never heard of that. what i will say is either 1 its an electrical problem im sure the electrical system would shut the car off or 2 its the maf. it might have a peice of metal on the little sensor witch is a peice of metal that heats up. if theres somthing on it it could be giving a false reading making the car shut off. yet again someone correct me if im wrong.

thank you =] someone told me they where ceramic or i read it someware they where but thank you for correcting me now i know the troof lol

 

im going to try and turn the remote start off by taking power out of it, then factory wire the ignition. if that dosent work then probably my MAF. damnit i hope this works im really hurting i live far from work.

 

They have a powder coating on them, but underneath they are aluminum. =) (the pict has most of the coating eatten off by me spraying a crap load of methanol through it though..lol)

 

lol i didnt know meth would do that to the coating on them. isnt it bad for the supercharger?

 

my question remains can a bad MAF shut down a car is it possible?

 

Typically, the maf wouldn't shut down the car, it should throw a cel and flip over to the VE tables if the maf is totally bad.

I'd bet on your remote start being the issue since this started after you installed it..

 

yea it'll make it run really funky.
and it can sputter and die.
mine was def doing this before when i had a maf issue.
i replaced it and it ran fine.

 

i want to keep my remote start its awesome i would hate to get it uninstalled to find that its not the remote start installs fault ive already spent over 500$ in this.

 

my money is on vacuum leak where you took the piping apart. start there dude

 

its in the shop now, i hope they find whats wrong.

UPDATE: dealer saying crank sensor is shot. hopefully this works.

 

driven for a day now seems to have work!