TechTips #1 – Electronic Throttle Body Troubleshooting

Your customer comes in with a “poor idle” concern. The Check Engine Light may or may not be illuminated. Could this be a problem with the electronic throttle body?

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[crocktears]

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I cleaned the throttle body of my wife's NIssan Note. It gave me a hell of problems, engine riving at idle. I followed the procedure on the service manual but couldn't solve the problem. I sent the car to Nissan dealership, they could NOT fix it with their ScanTool as well, but told me either the ECM or ETB(Electronic Throttle Body) is defect. I drove home because letting them change the ECM or the ETB will cost me a fortune. I ordered an ETB whose manufacture has a good reputation. With the help of a Scan Tool I bought, and your trick " brake and Gear" in position, it finally worked.

[binisjourney]

Jesussss . The way you explain calmly makes me wishes you to be my mechanical lecturer.

[nickschneider]

MY MAN……. Thank you so much! You helped me figure out that the new motor and trans I put in my 07 trailblazer was as good as I knew it was. I had some things going on that I just could not explain to any of the other techs I worked with, and yes I did try to clean, relearn and had the computer flashed as well… nothing worked, so I found this video and fixed my 2 year old headache. Again thank you so much!

[ryanchenier-poulin]

Bro you the best man, - wish you were in my area. i'd be over with biscuits and a notepad lol

[gardyian]

The most helpful video ever lead me straight to the problem and didnt just throw multiple possibilities where I’d get lost thank you 🙏🏿

[loreadaauto]

Thanks for sharing this video on electronic throttle body troubleshooting. It's helpful for diagnosing and repairing engine issues. Great work!

[joebagofdoe]

I love watching you work on 4 cyl engines GOOD JOB BRO!!!

[billyyoder]

Thank you Pete. Good job. Have a blessed and safe week to you and your family.

[VNNAHND]

Thank you so much for explaining this in great detail. I recently got the throttle body swapped on my 2020 Versa and I left the dealership and 10 miles away, the car began to shudder. Eventually the engine shut off and their excuse was "it didn't take the programming" I had to come back for the relearning.. The dealership drove it 20 miles instead of the previous 3 miles when I got the car back a second time. So far, it looks like everything is holding up.

[vitalyp.]

Great video, and Duralast is probably great too, but not only that i can't afford it, I would not pay that kind of money for any throttle body! I can almost buy a whole used car for that price! A Duralast throttle body for an 02 Volvo S60 2.4T costs $822.99 at Autozone! Not just an arm and a leg, they want a whole body for that throttle body, lol! What are they smoking?! Crack? I wonder how many units they actually sold and who would buy one at that price? Bosch unit is OEM and it's half the price of Duralast! Now, is Duralast really twice as good? I doubt it, unless it's made by hand mostly out of gold or something. Still can't be twice as good. I like to dream of parts that were "built to last"! :-) Thanks for the quality video, tho...

[Gammaepsilon]

At 5:11 my mom ride has a check engine light when i used her ride, it's a 2019 chevy cruze and it's has a electrical throttle body her air filter was dirty so replace that and went to check her throttle body but no build up has occurred yet so i still cleaned it but I wanted to see if it was working or not, got my phone out and postion my phone to record the throttle body while I pressed on the Accelerator and once that was done, check the phone and it starting to make noise every time it would open

[aknatwafayisgate]

These should of just stayed mechanical

[arthurfricchione]

Excellent video Pete. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and videos. Artie 🇺🇸😊

[SonomaComa]

Wow such valuable information. Especially since I just purchased a 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis. That is the first year of those cares for "drive by wire" I just learned.

[joshuapruden]

Greetings from Hartford Connecticut!! Thanks for putting so many educational videos on youtube!!! Thank you!!! Tell Pete that I love his videos and that this is one of my favorite youtube channels!! Keep up the good work!!!! Be safe!!!!

[investorgeny]

Thank you for sharing. 🤝 Your educational content was helpful. 👍👍

[kamaljitsinghattalia]

Fantastic fantastic too too GOOD teacher i would like to learn much more from you
Thank you
Very much

[rubenzuno]

Thanks for making this Video.
Im not a mechanic and Im trying to get a little old 2006 Honda Accord to run properly.
First issue is it doesn't read the scanner when you connected to the scanner I took it to a couple of autopart stores to used their scanner and it just doesn't work.
The issue the car is as you drive the car for about 15 or 20 minutes the car slows down even if I add more speed and press the gas all the way down to to floor it just doesn't get more power.
I know I need to get that scanner connector fix before I do anything else to the car but watching this video taught me one of many things that might be the cause of the poor acceleration issue
Again Thanks for making this video it was very well made at first when you said that you have to reset the new Throtte I said oooh nooo I need one of those computers to reset it mannnn but then at the end of the video you showed us how easy it was to reset it.
I said I could do that.
🙂👍Thank Very Much.

[reddeane]

Hi guys.... I've got a 2012 Chery J1...i had the same problem but... But I tried a temporary fix which was to use a fuel injector cleaner ...wait until the tank is almost empty... Add a small bottle of Injector cleaner... Approx 150mls.. Add Fuel and drive away. The result was amazing... No more hesitation when acceleration was applied... A more smoother ride.... It's being a few days so far and the car is definitely running a lot better.. What have u got to loose?..

[nwonknu]

Thank you so much for this Uncle. God bless🙌