Stuck Accelerator on V8 - reminscent of 007

[Theron J. Bliss]

I have a similar problem on my 1990 V8Q.  I haven't resolved it yet, but plan to
just buy a new throttle cable ($79).  When I purchased it from a shady dealer in
New Hampshire (Windham Auto Sales), it stuck, and when I went back, the idiots
had fixed the sticking problem, but now the throttle was hard to push, I saw that
they put two huge springs on the engine to eliminate it, but I didn't want them
to touch it anymore, and risk them fudging anything else.  I notice the secondary
throttle sticks, and I had this problem on a golf with 230,000 miles on it, and
just removed it and lubed it up pretty good.  I'll let you know if I find any
other helpful advice.

Theron J. Bliss
1990 V8 Quattro

FBFISH at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/25/00 7:15:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mconnor at frontiernet.net writes:
>
> << Would be curious to hear if anyone else has experinced this phenomenon
>  and what was done to repair it. >>
>
> Mark- I can not say I have had your problem, but While I was working on (?) I
> had the air box out, and while looking around that area I noticed that there
> were some screws loose on one of the throttle brackets and the Cir clip which
> held the linkage together was laying on the flat spot of the housing. I
> tightened the screws and reinstalled the cir clip, and have not noticed any
> loosening or cir clip falling off since. Its worth a check, and its only a 15
> min job. HTH
> Frank Santoro
> 1990 V8
> 1998 A8
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