Gas Petal Freezeup

The throttle body is dirty, clean it before you break a throttle cable.

IMO, whoever told you that was wrong. No icing on that mpfi engine. Odds are the cable is shot or the throttle body is gunked up. The quitting may be due to IAC failure or MAF gunked up. Sounds like the entire thing needs to be taken apart and cleaned.

Paul wrote in news:WdOdnQ6KRcRT6nPanZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

it is possible if the heated air intake is not working correctly. granted not overly likely. KB

"Alexm" wrote

A petal is part of a flower. Your car has a gas peDal.

What about VW microbuses ? 8-)

Thanks for the spelling correction. Gas pedal and break pedal - must remember to spell them correctly. :-)

Alexm

did you break your brake pedal?

why bother?

Bother, you say? The brake pedal was unbroken. : >)

Alexm

air enough to from ice. This usually happened with high humidity and temperatures in the 30's F. I have never heard of it with fuel injection.

It can happen. Although there is no fuel evaporation at or near the throttle blade with multi-point fuel injection, there IS a sudden drop in pressure across the blade so there is a sudden temperature drop. If the throttle body is dirty, a little ice can form on the muck around the rim of the blade and hold it shut.

I agree with the poster who said the OP should clean the throttle body before he breaks the throttle cable and gets stranded