lightning
Well-Known Member
Hello there, I wonder if anybody can help with this one. I have posted this question elsewhere but no real solution as yet. I have a new Defender 90 CSW and it has an odd accelerator pedal action. Everthing is fine until you use more than about two thirds max throttle travel (even for a second or two) and then the engine changes mode...the accelerator pedal becomes less responsive and requires pressing down quite a bit further to produce the same performance as before. It stays that way until you stop the engine, then it resets. You can drive at motorway speeds amd it will not do it, unless you apply full power. Max power also seems down when this happens but I am not certain about this. The vehicle has been back to the dealer twice but they say it is just the emission control and there is nothing they can do. They claim that no fault codes are stored in the ECU. Can anybody shed any light on this? I have not owned this type of vehicle before so have nothing to compare it with.