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Dec 8, 2008 | 12:19 PM

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Maybe not. I still don't have a spare and don't really plan on getting one. I think you're fixed.

Dec 8, 2008 | 02:03 PM

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I keep debating the same thing, Barry. If I go several more days without a hiccup, I'll hold off on spending any more money on it for now.

Dec 10, 2008 | 10:21 AM

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OK... I had a hiccup on Monday evening when leaving our client's plant, then again when entering my neghborhood some 90 minutes later.

Yesterday, when I got back to the client's location again, I disconnected the harness from the TP assembly and soaked it and the potentiometer both down heavily with the contact cleaner, and left them drying the rest of the day. Connected the harness before leaving the plant last night to come home, and still am having the hiccups.

Evidently, there really is a dead spot in the potentiometer because it always happens under the same conditions - moderate acceleration to about 30 mph going uphill (the uphill part is only coincidental in that it requires a slightly more aggressive acceleration... if it were a geometrical positioning issue, it would happen when I accelerate more easily on other inclines, but it doesn't).

I'll be getting a new assembly and getting this issue behind me as quickly as possibile ebcause it is still getting worse right now under those particular conditions described above. I had a full 3 second power loss last night when I got into my neighborhood on the exact same hill....

Dec 10, 2008 | 10:26 AM

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Hey Pete.....do you have grey interior? I ask because I do, and I plan on adding the 08 console pretty soon also, and I know guys have painted the grey to match our colors. Just wondering what the paint number is. I'd like to have it match my interior as close as possible!

Dec 10, 2008 | 10:46 AM

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Pete, the wierd part is that the dead spot is there, regardless of how you get to it, fast, slow, uphill, level ground, leaving a stop light, ect. What I don't get is why, only under that particular circumstance does it do it. Why not when pulling away from any stop. You still go past the part that you believe to be dead.
Sorry, not much help, only a lot of questions.

Dec 10, 2008 | 10:52 AM

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Barry, I've had the same questions in my own mind, and the only thing I can imagine is that it has something to do with the "rate of travel" when I'm pressing the accelerator. I'm determined to tear the thing apart once I get the new one in so I can see more about what's going on in there, and perhaps then we can unravel the mystery.

BTW... started a new thread on the possibility of converting over to the newer "non-intergral" pedal assembly.

Dec 10, 2008 | 12:50 PM

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Let us know what you figure out. I was hoping you just had some dust or dirt on it and cleaning it with the contact cleaner would wash it out. Knock on wood, mine has not failed me again after my deal the first time. But on the same not, shortly after the possible TPS deal, my IPR failed. Maybe just a coincidence.

Dec 10, 2008 | 12:55 PM

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I'll keep everyone appraised with progress reports.

Travis, yes, I have the gray interior, but don't have the paint numbers yet to do the same color-matching you're talking about. The unpainted console really doesn't look too bad... it just doesn't match.