Accelerator pedal came disconnected

[Andy111]

I was driving to work this morning and had just left to motorway and started to pullout onto the roundabout from the top of the slip road, (luckily it was pretty quiet and there was only one other car coming round the roundabout who was about 100m away) so started to pull out when the throttle cable disconnected from the accelerator pedal and the car stopped.

Luckily the car coming round the roundabout was far enough away to see I had stopped and went round me, I had to jump out of the car and push the car off the roundabout, a couple of other people stopped the help me and I managed to find all the parts which had fallen off and put the bolt back in finger tight and drive to work 5 minutes away.

Has anyone else had this problem? I have looked under the steering column before and thought it all looks a bit like a Mecharno set, but I have never thought to check it was all tight.

If this had been somewhere else it had fallen apart if could have been really dangerous, I would defiantly recommend that you check the see if anyone else has this problem waiting to happen.

[kambites]

It happened on a friend's S1. Better than the brake pedal coming disconnected though

[rfoster]

Did the actual pedal come off or is it just the throttle cable linkage? If so it's easy to fix. You can always buy Geary's upgraded linkage from Eliseparts. Easy to fit yourself in 20 minutes or so.

[jamiebae]

It happened to me - the rivet that holds the U shaped piece of metal on the end of the cable to the pedal sheared off. I drilled the remains of the old rivet out and replaced it with a small galvanised nut and bolt, takes 5 minutes but it is a bit fiddly.

[JamesG]

Happened to me too. The U shaped bracket snapped. I drilled the rivet out and got a mate to make me up a new bracket.

[Steff]

Happened to me as well so I replaced it with one of these http://www.eliseparts.com/shop/index.php?main_page...