Fly by wire throttle

[Chronos]

I have a question that maybe no one has thought of or maybe you have. I'm used to the old fashioned throttle were you had a cable coming from the accelerator to the throttle body (or carburetor, depending how far back you want to go), and they were easy to get under the hood and give it gas manually when you needed to do something under the hood. Now with these fly by wire (I took that term from airplanes) new cars where the accelerator is actually just a sending unit that sends an electrical signal to the throttle, how the heck to you give her gas manually from under the hood?

 

[Dread53]

Easy - you can't.

 

[alloy6ix]

I have a question that maybe no one has thought of or maybe you have. I'm used to the old fashioned throttle were you had a cable coming from the accelerator to the throttle body (or carburetor, depending how far back you want to go), and they were easy to get under the hood and give it gas manually when you needed to do something under the hood. Now with these fly by wire (I took that term from airplanes) new cars where the accelerator is actually just a sending unit that sends an electrical signal to the throttle, how the heck to you give her gas manually from under the hood?

Easy - you can't.

haha, yup. true. Don't worry, you're not alone. the day I got my car, I drove it to my buddies house and we were there with the hood propped looking for where in the holy hell the cable was..... A few minutes and a lot of laughs later we realized what was going on. lmao.

 

[Chronos]

haha, yup. true. Don't worry, you're not alone. the day I got my car, I drove it to my buddies house and we were there with the hood propped looking for where in the holy hell the cable was..... A few minutes and a lot of laughs later we realized what was going on. lmao.

I know what you mean, I went through that last year when I bought my wife a new car. We hadn't bought new cars since the late 90's and I was shocked how incredibly dependent everything has become on the computer controls. I used to open up the intake and shoot some injector cleaner in through the throttle body every so often just to keep it clean. What once was a one man job, now has become a two person job. I don't even know if these new computers would start throwing codes whenever I try that again.