Hi, I'm investigating implausible signal error G69 code P0121 at the mo. and need to inspect and clean the throttle pedal connector.  I'm a bit stuck trying to understand how the peg locks at the pedal base come away?  The manual shows a forked tool, but can anybody add to the following and say how the floor fixing pegs are released? What is happening when that tool is pushed into the 2 (different width) slots in the pedal base? When I poke my screwdriver in those slots it hits something pretty firm that I can't see. Thanks

 

Failed so far to find any pictures of my pedal swops, apologies.

When you get the new pedal assembly, you'll see the two plastic clips that need to be released.

After removing the Torx screw blank and screw, all you have to do is dive down through the carpet at the pedal base with the screwdriver(s) and flick the clips.

Pull the assembly away a short distance and twist it round so you can access the plug.

Electric plug has a locking mechanism that needs sliding then the plug pulls off.

Fitting the new one is the reverse but just clicks into place.

 

Does this help.

 

That helps a lot and I'll be on it tomorrow. However, I can't be sure but I think he might have broken the plastic locking 'tongues' as it came out? But since he wasn't putting the old pedal back, he wouldn't have been bothered about that! That would be true of most upgrading their pedals, but I want to put mine back in one piece.

 

From what I can see from a couple of frozen frames, the purpose of the VW tool would be to push those two locking tongues inwards, before prising up the base of the pedal - otherwise they snap off and there's nothing to hold the pedal on the floor?  I'll confirm with a macro photo once I get it off.

I'd be careful with touching the actual throttle pedal itself, for a four wheel drive car it is pretty flimsy, mine actually broke recently! A tiny stone found its way into the little hole (kindly left uncovered for just this sort of eventuality) on the right of the pedal and when I jumped into the car one day and my foot hit the pedal, game over, one broken throttle. It was left flopping around to the righthandside, car barely drivable, very little throttle response or control. Skoda fixed it at the house within a few days under warranty, it's barely covered 4500 miles since I got it this March and has not in any way been abused or badly driven.

 

I know the Yeti is no Land Rover but I can't get my head around the fact that Skoda could fit a pedal of that design and think it actually fit for purpose, even a cover over that hole would have been something. Maybe a rare thing to happen but can't think I'd be too happy if something like that happened in some very remote location, potentially dangerous too. Nil points on that one but a great wee car otherwise.

Well mine have been used off road a lot, and even with a pair of hefty safety boots on I have never managed to break the throttle pedal.

 

I suggest that you were just unlucky.

I agree on the flimsyness, It's not like the chrome /stainless pedal on my VW which is why people are fitting the aftermarket metal pedals? I thought it was flimsy just wiggling it with my fingers, which is why I want to be careful getting it off. Unfortunately you can't release the plug and clean the connector without lifting it off the floor.

Funnily enough the car drives better than it ever did before with the new throttle fitted, although the cars software was also updated too and it seems slightly more economic than it was before. Slightly being the word with the 1.4 petrol engine which doesn't really give that great mpg anyway, think its averaging now around 37 mpg whereas before it was more like 34 to 35mpg. In a sense the 1.2 petrol engine would have been the one to have but it with the PCH offer that I got the car was so cheap anyway and with a high spec so the poor mileage is not a major issue in that sense.

 

Well what a pita this is to remove! Not only do you have to dive in at about 45 degrees with a screwdriver, but the left and right floor locking clip requires a different action to unlock the clip.

 

Poke a chisel between the rear edge of the pedal and the carpet and try to pull it up so you can lift the pedal a little on its clips and see inside the gap. Start with the left floor peg. The floor pegs are steel with a mushroom head. Push a 5-6mm screwdriver blade vertically into a moulding slot you might just see, which is part of the accelerator pedal. Twist the blade gently clockwise or push a little to the left whilst pulling the pedal upwards.

 

After releasing the left peg, move across to the right peg. With the screwdriver blade vertical, the release clip needs to be pushed inwards, NOT sideways like the left peg GOTCHA! You can see the evidence of my first attempts of just poking about and getting nowhere!