Thread: '93 300e idle surging - fault code 009...advice needed
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Old 08-07-2002, 11:41 PM
suginami suginami is offline
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One more thing - does your cruise control work?

Another symptom of a bad throttle actuator is a mal-functioning cruise control.

Our wonderful German engineers designed 3 or 4 separate functions into the actuator. If any of these go out, you're replacing a $1,000 part.
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