Throttle cables on 50 year old vehicles work just fine.
No, they don’t. They require regular maintenance, like very other mechanical part on your car. My 1980 Mercedes and equally old Honda motorcycle are both cable-controlled. The linkage in the Mercedes is all sorts of worn out, to the point I can’t accelerate at full throttle anymore. And guess what? Mercedes doesn’t make those parts anymore.
Several have had tps issues.
A Throttle Position Sensor, as you understand it, is not used on electronic throttle bodies. At all. Inside the throttle body, the stepper motor itself (which is not a potentiometer) feeds the position back to the ECU.
And good luck buying one when they stop making the exact model for your specific vehicle when the factory in China quits making them.
TPS sensors were often shared among several models in a lineup, sometimes carried to newer models, and even over different manufacturers at times. They’re stupid simple to make and fix.
I don’t agree. And yes I understand the differences but I was grouping them together for simplicity.
OK cool, you go make a tps sensor or a stepper motor TB and I’ll go make a throttle cable. Let’s see who can do it far easier. Answer: a fucking cable.
You can keep your new rolling spyware computer cars that require a dealer computer to change oil. Not me.
No, they don’t. They require regular maintenance, like very other mechanical part on your car. My 1980 Mercedes and equally old Honda motorcycle are both cable-controlled. The linkage in the Mercedes is all sorts of worn out, to the point I can’t accelerate at full throttle anymore. And guess what? Mercedes doesn’t make those parts anymore.
A Throttle Position Sensor, as you understand it, is not used on electronic throttle bodies. At all. Inside the throttle body, the stepper motor itself (which is not a potentiometer) feeds the position back to the ECU.
TPS sensors were often shared among several models in a lineup, sometimes carried to newer models, and even over different manufacturers at times. They’re stupid simple to make and fix.
I don’t agree. And yes I understand the differences but I was grouping them together for simplicity.
OK cool, you go make a tps sensor or a stepper motor TB and I’ll go make a throttle cable. Let’s see who can do it far easier. Answer: a fucking cable.
You can keep your new rolling spyware computer cars that require a dealer computer to change oil. Not me.
Do you hate right to repair or what?