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Old Mar 15, 2019 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Tech II
More often than not, it'* A WIRE/CONNECTION PROBLEM RATHER THAN THE THROTTLE BODY....

We are talking about the TAC system.......could be throttle body assembly, PPS, ECM/PCM, or any of the wiring or connections in between them....
True but he wants to shotgun parts at it. Could be a module or wiring problem as well. Worse case scenario he replaces all physical components and ends up troubleshooting the wiring. Oh well....

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Old Mar 17, 2019 | 10:48 PM
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I found out the hard way one time.....ordered a very expensive throttle body assembly....installed it....was ok for one day......a come back for me, which I was not happy about(whenever I got one, a big deal was made about it!!!!!!!!!!)......

Further electrical testing, while flexing the wires in the harness to the throttle body, exposed a broken wire/connection inside the insulation....When the engine would flex back/forth a certain way, the harness would move a little and cause an intermittent problem....

But if the guy has the money to shotgun, so be it.....
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Oh yeah. We all had one or more of them on our resume. Part os our growing pains.
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Old Mar 19, 2019 | 11:36 AM
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Ya so it only acted up when below 20 degrees Celsius so i wont know if it worked till next winter lol
But i cant see bad wiring only act up with temperature change... i could be wrong though.
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