Removing the accelerator pedal

[skoov]

Does anyone know how to do this?

Also is there some kind of switch that is pressed when the accelerator is closed or does the ECU just rely on the POT being fully closed (what I'm assuming is a POT)? The reason I ask this is my car idles quite high (1.25 - 1.5k) when you start it up - cold or warm - and never seems to return back to under 1k idle, unless you pull the accelerator towards you and then it's fine. Once you've done this it never idles high again for the rest of the journey. If I pull the pedal towards me before starting the engine it's fine as well.

When I pull the pedal towards me it doesn't seem to travel, so it's not as if it's getting stuck or caught on anything, just not quite making contact with a switch or something...

Any ideas?

Cheers

 

[Nath.]

I think the mk4 gas pedal can be calibrated with vag-com or at the dealers

I seem to remember the mk3's suffering from badly calibrated gas pedals, my old mk3's pedal was a bit all or nothing
then I read on here that others had this too so I told the dealers about it and they said that they recalibrated it

 

[skoov]

Just had a quick play with VAG COM and it says it's idling at 1300+. It's got the correct values in there to make it idle at 930ish, so I guess it must be something to do with the pedal sticking/not returning somehow.

 

[Nath.]

ahh ok, it does sound like a mechanical problem then

some wd40 or look into a return spring mechanism problem

failing that remove/refit the pedal and see what happens

 

[skoov]

Fixed!

I finally decided to take off the accelerator after working out how it was fixed on.

A wiring loom resting on the accelerator plug (connection from POT to ECU) had pushed the housing holding the POT round by about 2mm. This meant that when the pedal returned it wasn't quite turning the POT all the way. The POT is clamped by 4 tiny screws so I just rotated it back to its original position... FIXED

 

[Leigh15]

Cool - glad you got it sorted

 

[Nath.]

well done chap

don't tell the stealers or they will void your warranty

 

[skoov]

don't tell the stealers or they will void your warranty

Don't have any left anyway Plus I've only got the car for another week or so then I'm looking for something new

 

[Nath.]

what you after next?

 

[skoov]

Hmm, not decided yet. My mate's buying the Ibiza which is why I wanted to fix the gas pedal.

I don't know whether to stick with a sensible TDi (A3, maybe a 1 Series, etc), or go for something along the lines of RX-8 or Z4.

 

[Nath.]

that's quite some difference in engines there, torquey diesel/high revving petrol?

 

[skoov]

Yep that's true. Unfortunately there's no RX-8 TDi

I'll probably end up with a TDi of some sort, but I'll be back on here to post regardless of what it is!