Morning all. As per the title really, 2010 Scout, 125k miles, the OH has this morning reported sluggish performance, a heavy throttle and the temp gauge needle is stuck on the low (50) mark instead of its usual 90 midpoint. Does this sound like a blocked EGR valve?  

Thanks for any thoughts. Tony

Heavy throttle 😲

Is that a bad sign? 😳

Turns out to be the throttle position sensor. Unusual failure on these apparently. 

It was a frown of disbelief but turns out I was wrong, my apologies.

 

I still can't see how it could be related to the temperature guage indicating low but if the replacement has cured that then we can add it to the growing list of oddities from these vehicles.

Having had quite a few multiple warning lights thrown up that turned out to be nothing more that a dirty fuse (one of the two up near the screen end of the fuse box) I'm fully expecting the temp gauge issue to be something like that. Related to that, the needles for the temp and fuel gauge have become invisible at night. The gauges are illuminated but the needles aren't. Which is odd. 

Will update the throttle sensor thing when the replacement arrives. 

Edited 27 January, 20233 yr by Blackpuddin

OK so apparently it was the actual throttle pedal that needed replacing, I presume it has some electronics attached to it because the genuine Skoda part cost £160! 

In case you were wondering, no, my mechanic is not a swindler! 😆