Silicon Dielectric Grease - Smoother running, more responsive & less smokey TDI!!

[Armitageshanks]

Hi people,
Found Maplins do a silicone grease in a 50g tube for £3.49, as well as the spray can version. bought some this aftrenoon and proceeded to smear grease in Maf plug. Unfortunately i could'nt form a brilliant judgement on it as theres horrendous traffic in North london at the mo; so will try to thrash car around Epping forest later. My cars a 2002 tdi se recently bought with 74K. I thought it ran well myself although coming home on the M1 a week ago i thought the turbo could have kicked in a bit harder when overtaking. Maf plugs were really clean also on initial inspection i.e no corrosion.

 

[Armitageshanks]

Car does seem to change smoother and pick-up well but this could be in my head. But as i've only had the car a week and a bit maybe i needed to know more of its characteristics previously. Saying this, the drive always seems to get better each time im in it and yesterdays drive was no exception.

 

[danthemanwhocan]

Did my MAF this morning with the grease from speeding.co.uk

Certainly felt smoother even from cold, so for £2.99 one can't complain!

 

[davels]

nice pic in your siggy dantheman are those HID's i see there have you posted any other pics in the pics section?

 

[danthemanwhocan]

cheers davels

They're actually LED sidelights

Because of the longer exposure on the camera, they appear like HIDs, although they look nice in real life too...

Got them from ultraleds.co.uk, about £5 in total, a worthy investment methinks!

 

[davels]

very nice good effect they have there

 

[Tall-Paul]

i did mine MAF the other day and i could tell absolutely no difference at all, dont think i could have done anythin wrong but atleast its protected better now.

 

[Georgel]

Yours is probably too new, or still in good condition.

 

[ScottSaxp]

Did mine today, 07 Ibiza FR pd130 engine. I know there are pics already but heres some more:

After the pic above i plugged it in and out a few times, topped up the grease and plugged it back in. Havent driven it yet and i doubt ill notice a difference witht eh car being so new but its good to know i hopefully have safe guarded it for the future.

 

[googies]

Get some of the Silicon grease as in above pics, unplugg the connector as shown in pics and apply the grease to the electrical contacts, plug in and out a few times to clean and coat all contacts add more grease and plug in and drive!

 

[googies]

You mean other sensor connectors etc? if you read back on here i think there are several, MAP being one, dont know where this is.

 

[sssstew]

just do it on the MAF and MAP connectors. MAP is on the pipe from the intercooler.

 

[muddyboots]

I bought a small tube off Ebay - I would tell you who from, but can't access Ebay from work to find out !

 

[sssstew]

looks fine to me, and 25g will be fine, like you say it will be plenty.

 

[EdButler]

Don't worry about it, I can have a flick around. Was just wondering, as I think I read a couple of pages ago that people were contacting sellers but the sellers had none left. Typically I can't find the posts again now (damn confusing 40 posts/page layout)!

edit - for people who can access ebay, is this the right stuff? And will 25g be enough (I assume it'll be plenty)?

Come over to a Sheffield meet mate, or better yet come to Santa Pod on April 15th and ill give you a dosage for free! It stays in my car now as ive done about 12!

 

[Georgel]

I might pop over to pod actually Ed, are you running that weekend?

 

[thebeno]

I will take some off your hands, let me know how much you want for it. Cheers

 

[air121005]

i tried the Dielectric Grease MAF sensor challenge and have to say i am quite impressed tbh!

where as before the power kicked in at 1900rpm 'ish, it now feels much smoother and progressive and that the power is more available from 1500rpm!

really suprised it has made as much of a difference as it has!

as read in this thread, the addition of Dielectric Grease doesn't always yeild results but i think for the outlay of £5 (from which i probably still have £4-80's worth) its is definately worth trying!

cheers for the tip and reccomendation on this!

 

[SEAT leon 007]

this maf is that the plug socket on the air filter box?

 

[SEAT leon 007]

is the maf conect the one that sits on the aif filter box, my car is the seat leon