rotorheadcase
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Hi all,
Like most owners, I have been chasing CEL's for a little while now. I had the throttle body replace with a contactless upgrade and that fixed the limp mode associated with the CEL's. I also replaced both lambda probes which got rid of about 50% of the frequency of CEL's but still I have had a CEL intermittently that "seemed" to be associated with the throttle pedal.
Whenever the light would come on, a slight dab of the throttle would cause it to disappear for a while until I came back to idle when it would come on again. I pulled the throttle pot apart to check the resistor track for wear and as you can see from the associated photo, it was knackered!!
I ordered a new pedal pot from Eurospares and fitted it today. RESULT!! Perfect idle, no hesitation and no check engine light! I strongly considered Luuk's contactless version but he was quick to point out that it had only been tested on one car and it was sold on a buyer's own risk basis. I will probably send him my old pedal pot and get the contactless version at some point but I wanted this fixed with certainly so went for the new option.
Hopefully my experiences will assist someone with diagnosing their own problem.
Regards,
Neil
Like most owners, I have been chasing CEL's for a little while now. I had the throttle body replace with a contactless upgrade and that fixed the limp mode associated with the CEL's. I also replaced both lambda probes which got rid of about 50% of the frequency of CEL's but still I have had a CEL intermittently that "seemed" to be associated with the throttle pedal.
Whenever the light would come on, a slight dab of the throttle would cause it to disappear for a while until I came back to idle when it would come on again. I pulled the throttle pot apart to check the resistor track for wear and as you can see from the associated photo, it was knackered!!
I ordered a new pedal pot from Eurospares and fitted it today. RESULT!! Perfect idle, no hesitation and no check engine light! I strongly considered Luuk's contactless version but he was quick to point out that it had only been tested on one car and it was sold on a buyer's own risk basis. I will probably send him my old pedal pot and get the contactless version at some point but I wanted this fixed with certainly so went for the new option.
Hopefully my experiences will assist someone with diagnosing their own problem.
Regards,
Neil