Hard start/stalling issue
 

So right before I deployed to Iraq my car started having some troubles. I was driving back to my house when my car started stuttering, then outright stalled. It wouldn't restart for more than a few seconds. After sitting for about 30-45 minutes the car restarted, but didn't run right at all. I mananaged to limp the car home, it even stalled a couple times while driving home. After being in Iraq I sent some info to my wife to check the fuel filter. She never got around to that because the car wouldn't start at all, and threw a CES code. Had the car towed to the mechanic. They found that my MAF was bad. It was replaced to the tune of $360, $180 of that was a brand new MAF from O' Reilly.

The reason we thought it was the fuel filter was because the car never put out a code when it started acting funny, I guess it hadn't just thrown out the code yet. Good news is though my car runs now!

Good to hear it's fixed, sorry it cost way more then it should have. $180 labor to remove 1 plug and 2 screws, at the most, a 5 minute job.

They also did A LOT of testing to make sure that was the only issue. My mechanic is thorough.

Well at least the high labor brought you peace of mind that it was fixed. Good to hear she runs perfect again

Whats to test, unplug the MAF, done.

They're cheaper than the dealer. My mechanic is about $50 an hour while the dealer is double that. The thing I did forget to do was call the dealer though to see if my car would have been covered under the 8yr/80k warranty for emissions systems.