I had a little issue the other day with the superb and thought I would share it. You dont know some one might have the same problem and have no access to vag com....

So I have a superb pd130, driving it round Hanger Lane roundabout (A40 london) and suddenly the accelerator dosent work and the car is idling just above 1k the warning light flashes up and also the glow plug light :(

I roll off the roundabut and find a nice safe place to pull over without upsetting any other motorists, turn the engine off wipe the mess up from the seat and breath lol....

I started the engine and all was fine again.

Thought it might have been a bit of a glitch and drove it home and it seemed ok.

But when the misses drove to work it done the same thing three times on the m25. and the same in the everning.

So out came vag com and I got

Errors

17664 engine temp sensor

18047 accelerator position sensor

17569 manifold temp sensor

17564 manifold pressure sensor

17849 egr valve

So got a new temp sensor(green one, old one was the black one) and a bottle of pink coolant.

Replaced it took all the intake pipes off cleaned them up a bit.

Gave the egr a clean up with a bit of carb cleaner same goes for the map sensor.

Put back together and spanked the car about for 45min thought job done.

Misses takes car to work, on the M25 and it does the same but without the glow plug light coming on.

vag com shows up

18047 accelerator position sensor

So £55 from dealer but two days to get it in.

I cant wait two days so I thought I would have a go at cleaning the switch inside the pedal up.

Its an easy job:

take the bottom part of the dash board off (bit under stearing wheel) remove cables ie odbII and light

3 bolts and disconnect the connector on pedal. The pedal will come off with the electrical black box .

Took the top cover off the top of the black box (becarefull It has to go back in the same possition look at the position of the screws!)

got some electrical contact cleaner and a cotton but wiped the tracks on the PCB not to hard just a bit to take the shine off them.

Put back together.

A week has gone by and no problem touch wood (if it changes ill update post on how long this fix worked for)

Interesting for some hopefully and not so for others....

Good luck....

Update 24/09/20010

Still working fine...

Edited 24 September, 201015 yr by netgeni

Nice Fix