Wife pulled up at junction then went to pull away but pedal was on floor (engine running ok) and no reaction to pressing pedal.  People behind helped push her to side of road.  Checking the pedal she found it was just floppy up and down.  Walk down to nearby local garage just opening and they said either borrow the courtesy car to go OAP early morning shop and they would go up and look at car later in day or call RAC.  She went back to car switched on and started engine and found pedal was up in correct position so drove the 3 miles home.  I have had a look and pedal feels ok going up and down with no odd catching or resistance and all seems well.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to what might have happened??  What is the mechanism that sends the signal to the ECU.....rotating resistor??  If pedal was just floppy and on the floor why was engine not revving with stuck throttle open???

A mystery.

 

Dennis

I have read elsewhere that apparently other Skoda models (maybe the Yeti too?) have a safety 'feature' that disables the throttle  if the pedal is rapidly pressed  down at the the same time as the brakes are operated? I guess if this is true, it is to help prevent inadvertent accelerating when you are trying to do an emergency stop. And I assume turning the engine off and back on resets it.

 

I also read that having this feature means that you can't perform heel and toe braking. I presume it can be disabled within VCDS?

 

This doesn't explain why the pedal went floppy, but it could simply be that having been disabled, it gave an odd feeling?

On 08/07/2020 at 16:35, muddyjim said:

I have read elsewhere that apparently other Skoda models (maybe the Yeti too?) have a safety 'feature' that disables the throttle  if the pedal is rapidly pressed  down at the the same time as the brakes are operated?

You cannot hold down throttle then brake to dry out disks after going thru deep water etc as throttle goes to tickover and it'll stall but pedal feels normal.
But if you have a little speed and brake gently first you can then apply throttle and it will respond, brake must be applied first then balance throttle against brake.

I will give that a try.