Hey! I have an issue on my Formula. It is my dd, bone stock and it is an A4. I have had no problems with her for 298,742 miles other than routine maintenance. I am very well mechanically adept, but I am dumb as a Newb when it comes to the TCS. My camaro don't have that crap on it.

So I get in and start the car the other morning and everything was normal. I leave the driveway and proceed to work, all normal. I get to the end of the subdivision and stop at the stop sign and go to leave and BAM no gas pedal. It will move but it won't rev the engine. I popped the hood and took a look, everything appears normal. I removed the relay and replaced it and still the same thing.
The idiot light in the dash is now on as well says TCS OFF. So what I am looking for is maybe a schematic or breakdown of the system so that I can fix it. I had this up on my home forum and have not found any solution other than to remove the whole thing. At this point that isn't an option. I am also all ears for whatever I should try, except deleting the system. Thanks in advance!
Jack

 

Have you pulled off the small black cover off of the throttle body to see what the lines are doing? Maybe one of them has popped off.

 

There was a post in the last 3 months by someone who had EXACTLY this same problem..... pedal moves, but the throttle blades don't. The thread included a picture showing (if I recall correctly) a black plastic lever that broke and need to be replaced.

Try a "search". It may have been on LT1 Based Engine Tech, or it may have been on "General 1967-2002 ....Tech".

 

With all due respect I searched before I posted and I read probably an hours worth of material on deletion and possible causes. I did not see that thread but I will try again. I will try site wide search as I only search LT1 prior.

I also pulled the cover and everything looks fine

Well what do ya know I researched and I entered my title and voila after all the Toyota stuff it appeared. I swear it didn't come up yesterday under LT1 but it came up under general search and then lists it as LT1 tech. Thanks. That thread is preety much all I need to know

 

With all due respect - I assure you, the post you want exists.

Given the fact that this is the second time in a row I've gotten negative feedback for suggesting a "search", I will no longer offer that advice, no matter how helpful it might be. Sorry you couldn't find it.

Good luck.

 

I have found the search function on this site to be quite sketchy but also helpful occationally.

 

No no no no no!!!!!! I insist lol. I think you didn't see my edit, I went into the homepage and searched from there and found it. I appreciated you directing me that way as I only searched under the LT1 section and got no results. The irony is that the returned search was in fact from the LT1 section. You can feel free to check my site history and see that I did a search (a few times in different parameters for this) before I posted. I believe in the feature and I use it.