Accelerator pedal gets stuck ! Help ! Any ideas ?

Edward · Post by **Edward** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:21 pm

hi

has anyone got experience of their accelerator pedal getting stuck ? normally happens in town sort of driving, ill be driving a while then when you have to stop or change down and go to push the accelerator pedal again its jammed ! and u have to push quite hard to free it ..

ive tightened the throttle cable a bit at the throttle housing side, but its still doing it !!!

help ?!?

Edward

marksch · Post by **marksch** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:47 pm

Hello Edward,

thats a very scarrey and unsafe thing to happen!
Havent experienced it myself, luckely.
Have to sort out if its caused by the throttle housing/valve
and/or cable(damaged maybe and gets stuck in outer cable-harnas?)
Pedal not likely though, if it was the other way round as in
getting stuck while accelerating, then pedal would be an option i think
(had exactly this with my old VW LT camper)
Clean throttle house and valve with carb clean and check if cable can move without resistance.
succes and hope you will fix it soon.

Greetz, Mark

Edward · Post by **Edward** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:57 am

problem solved !

just cleaned all the throttle house and now works like a dream !

now just need to sort out the high idle when engine is hot !

SMOOTH 480 · Post by **SMOOTH 480** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:37 pm

i had a small problem with my accelerator gettin stuck wide open !
had to quickly turn off engine and reset found this to be a sticky butterfly in the throttle housing
scary when it first happened on m5