Best place to buy MAF?

[Perfectlap]

Well for $150 or literally 25% of what the dealer will charge why not. But I think someone mentioned once that Porsche have pretty strict testing of these before they are installed. There is apparently a wide variance on quality by Bosch. What doesn't make the cut goes on Amazon.
I guess the issue is do you want to replace it every two years for $150 or every 8 years for $600.

[KRAM36]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Well for $150 or literally 25% of what the dealer will charge why not. But I think someone mentioned once that Porsche have pretty strict testing of these before they are installed. There is apparently a wide variance on quality by Bosch. What doesn't make the cut goes on Amazon.
I guess the issue is do you want to replace it every two years for $150 or every 8 years for $600.

Do you buy all your parts from a Porsche dealer? If so I can see why you have spent $15k in repair cost.

That is a crazy good price for a new one, but even Pelican and ******************************************** sell the exact same part you would get from a Porsche dealer at about 1/3 the cost you posted.

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If you feel like chancing it, $45 used and these guys don't have 100% feedback for selling bad parts.

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[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by KRAM36

Do you buy all your parts from a Porsche dealer? If so I can see why you have spent $15k in repair cost.

That is a crazy good price for a new one, but even Pelican and ******************************************** sell the exact same part you would get from a Porsche dealer at about 1/3 the cost you posted.

I don't buy any of my parts from the dealer. Point is Porsche only use the top "1%" so to speak for this particular part. Those cut rate prices on Amazon in this instance reflect the units that do not meet the highest testing requirements by Porsche and did not pass. Allegedly, Bosch takes them back and price them accordingly. For whatever reasons Bosch have not mastered better quality control for this specific part, which probably means its something that is beyond their control perhaps some rare earth metal or something. Otherwise there would not be such a wide variance for this part unlike so many other parts that have a tighter margin.

Good deals are often worth taking a chance but they're a good deal for a reason.
High probability of under performance.