Originally Posted by MMZ_TimeLord
Woody,
Excellent way to track down a problem!
I think that whoever designed that throttle body feedback potentiometer did a crappy job. I would never put a potentiometer in an engine bay environment. I would have gone with an optical sensor, like computer mice use on their wheels. With that inside of a sealed unit, you would NEVER have the issue that you did.
Once again... Excellent work!
This way costs less. Think of when the Crossfire, hel the SLK was in just the drawing phases. Pots are cheap, been around for awhile. The factory don't give diddly-$h1t about us end users and with their grandiose dreams of pushing millions of units, for every pot the sell over the optical sensor (which would be fan-frickin-tastic) would save themselves 5cents a piece sold.
It's crazy how automakers don't want to give us what we. As if the public don't get in accidents and whatnot. We'll always be buying cars. I'm gonna stop here because I can rant on all automakers for hours on end.
Woody, you're awesome!! Keep it up. Never tire. Never fail. Never stop. Ever.
Justin