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My throttle cable and handbrake cable keep freezing up! Does it happen on yours too ..... ?

Yepp

Squirting WD 40 into the accelerator cable sleeve from both ends does help. (to be done when it's above freezing outside)

Careful when driving off with a slightly sticky accelerator ...it will get worse while driving. The cold air rushing past it will freeze it, not thaw it.
If you accelerator is sticky when first starting the car, let it idle for a while until hot water reaches the radiator up front. That thaws the cable for good then.

Not nice getting the accelerator frozen while doing 100km/h on a dual carriageway, as happened to me last year

Mine does that too, mostly on the accelerator cable, but the handbrake was like it the other morning after i'd left the van sitting for a couple of days.

Guess that's a tick in the fly by wire box... for the accelerator at least.

had to take mine off the day before yesterday and clean out the frozen mud in the tube all the way front to back - you'd think on a left hooker with the plastic cover on the bottom of the pedal it would be good but no when you go nose first into a puddle the water is forced up the body and into the side of the cover where the tape that vw fitted has broken away and lo and behold it's forced down the tube - not a noticeable problem generally other than rusting the cable as water is a lube for nylon, ie the tube and coated cable, but a pain when it freezes, wasted a few hours and made a mess of the bath washed out, blown out and dried and refitted
I fitted longer screws on the cover and filled the gaps with quality foam tape from Bentley's body shop - be better than what VW used originally, see how that does this time, it's only been 18 months since I replaced the cable and outer, I was shocked at how much was in there

Never happens with mine!

Mines been doing it for a while so if we get a dry day I'm going to fit a greased up new one.

Happened to me this morning but thawed out quote quickly

happened to me going down a French Autoroute.
You could tap the pedal and it would release, until "taht" day when tapping just made it rev more!
I kept going faster and faster, then over the brow of the hill, it got faster again, luckily there was a junction and I manage to get off and kill the ignition.
At the time I was recently shawn, so i had plenty of hair bands left, had to tie a few together to make a temporary throttle return spring.
The most unpleasant part was back at the campsite changing the throttle cable on my back on a lowered van using a bindingless snowboard as a creeper board, "bar-steward" freezing it was.

Why is it not strapped to the water hoses?

Excuse my ignorance as I have yet to crawl about down the whole lot yet!

Ta

Rogue Trooper wrote:Why is it not strapped to the water hoses?

Excuse my ignorance as I have yet to crawl about down the whole lot yet!

Ta

For reasons of a nice straight run I suppose, but it's a dman good idea and worth re-routing a heater hose for!

on a lowered van

a tick in the non-lowered box then

Yes, have also had both throttle and hand-brake freeze for a few minutes during 'the big-freeze', not yet this year

Mine prob now are the door locks and the windup windows, can't wind down but frozen inside so need to

Do we have LHD throttle cables in stock yet Simon .....?

My throttle has over the last few days. My door rubbers freeze and make it hard to get into the beast.

Tony

Hi Tony .... I see the M11 is still not snow ploughed! Significant snow falls tonight ....

Hi Andrew,

Yep, and my road has been closed off, hehe.

Tony