Originally Posted by Paul F
Originally Posted by +8Rich
Originally Posted by RichardV6
What's a throttle cable innocent. Seriously though things haven't improved with DBW. You still have to invent ways to get your substantially less bendy body into the depths of footwell when things go tit's up and you haven't got an accommodating partner. Good luck Richard.


Richard you have just reminded me that on my first 4/4 Sport the brake light switch failed and it was then that I educated us all about the second pair of contacts being used as a stop fuelling signal to the ECU, quite a while ago now. The footwell was a total nightmare for me ..

And when the stop fuelling switch starts to fail - as it is bound to - the car starts to hesitate - as I found out on our 4/4. Thereafter I carried spares of both the ECU input switch and the brake light switch. Because, of course, they were different - looked the same but one NC, the other NO.

/rant mode
As a young electronics engineer in the telecommunications industry, I learnt about “wetting currents”. Whoever designed that ECU input / switch combination should be made to swap several such switches with their legs tied together.

/end rant

I remember at the time mine failed on the brake light side I posted both RS Components switch reference numbers on here somewhere, at least ten years ago now I would say.

The footwell experience was bad enough back then..

p.s. I have this vision in my head now of poor apprentices with legs tied together trying to get out of the well before hunger and thirst overtake them..

2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev