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Originally Posted by djctoto
Oiled air filter elements have been reported to corrupt MAF sensors. Causing the sensors to read incorrectly. Dry filters while not flowing as well as oiled filters don't have this potential issue
Food for thought
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This has been debunked more times than I can count over the past 20 years. It would take a massive over-oiling of the air filter and even when that happens it doesn’t seem to corrupt the MAF signal. I even have a very recent first hand experience on this point. My new JLT filter was massively over-oiled from the factory leaving significant visible oil in the intake tube and TB blade, to the point I needed to wipe it out with a cloth. It had no impact on MAF accuracy. And cleaning the MAF resulted in no difference afterwards either. My wideband tracked everything identically before and after I noticed the excessive intake oil. So I think we can retire that old wives tale. 
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