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ironman

New Member

• May 16, 2008

• #1

i have a 2000 td5 disco which has done 130000 miles when itake my foot of the acc pedal revs stay up for a few seconds before they start to drop which is a problem when changing gear any ideas !!! i know theres no throttle cable so i can only presume a sensor starting to go !!

 

cjslator

New Member

• May 17, 2008

• #2

Not very experienced with the TD5's however a friends Mk4 Astra had a similar problem.

First thing to check are the connections, make sure that they are clean and have good contact.

His problem was the potentiometer on the pedal.

Hope that is of some help.

 

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ironman

New Member

• May 18, 2008

• #3

tried cleaning conections etc with no change hope it aint got to go on to the diangnostic machine

 

battenberg

Well-Known Member

• May 18, 2008

• #4

give it some WD40 on the pedal bearing mine was sticking, did the same thing