Sticky Throttle @ 70k miles Options

[SteveHall]

I've had this intermittent fault with my throttle. Occasionally when I start up the engine it get going and stalls fairly quickly. If it then try to depress the throttle pedal (gas) it's stuck. If it give it a kick or press hard it suddenly frees itself like it was stuck / jammed on something. After this the car will start, idle and drive fine with normal throttle responce and no further sticking. This doesn't seem to be just a cold weather thing and seems to happen about once a month completely at random, even if I'd driven and parked up the car 4 hours ago.

Anyone else had this problem? I'm thinking replace cable and strip down the throttle to see if there's anything obviously wrong with it + lube / grease / clean anything that needs it. Any thoughts / ideas?

[dabazied]

I have a similar issue with the pedal except no start up issues and it only happens when I stop at a light or start up about one time out of a month lol. I haven't looked into it yet but it is rather annoying and I probably need to.