RE: Another wonderful(not) Audi defect

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <933713F1FB7BD111AC2300A0C98F1AD101A07498@MILXPR06> "Buchholz, Steven" writes:

> The issue is not one of the cable wearing through, it is that there is a
> high stress point for the cable at the point where the cable contacts the
> guide on the throttle body, and with repeated bending and pulling the
> strands of wire break.  I am of the opinion that if the cable is misadjusted
> so that there is excessive tension on the cable at WOT it exacerbates the
> failure.

Note that there is a MAJOR threat in the microfiche about never fitting
a cable that has been kinked or that is suspected of having been kinked.

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 Phil Payne
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