Quote Originally Posted by gldgti View Post
You said previously there was ATF all over the place though? Surely there was a gearbox problem then?
Thanks gldgti, agreed. I'm just not a very good witness.

ATF is what I thought I saw. To be honest, I saw a lot of what looked like oil, under and on the bottom of the sump guard, oil so assumed the worst. It guess it must be engine oil, probably following a lot of country kays recently, so needs another look.

In any event, it turns out that the problem was simple enough. On inspection, the MAF plug was sitting loose in the socket, which makes sense of the 'short to battery' code. Plugged it back in and took it for a freeway run tonight and it was fine.

While I was at it, I cleaned the sensor with 2/3 of a can of CRC MAF cleaner. There was a bit of gunge in there including some tiny bits of twig on the inside end of it, so worth doing.
Happy Qlder