ELECTRICAL problems can be incredibly frustrating. One minute you’re driving along without a care in the world, and the next you’re stranded in the lashing rain with no way of even trying to find or fix the cause – at least, that’s what happened to LRM’s Associate Publisher, Steve Miller, a couple of months ago. He was so frustrated by his Defender’s lack of forward motion that he wrote about it in Writers’ Rovers in the January 2024 issue.
The problem that he experienced is one that’s not uncommon on Td5 Defenders. The accelerator pedal, which is fed with a supply voltage from the engine control module (ECU) feeds back a signal voltage telling the ECU how much fuel to inject, in simple terms, depending on how far you’ve got the pedal pushed down. If any one of the wires between the ECU and pedal fail, the engine will still start and idle fine, but the engine won’t rev as the ECU won’t see an input from the throttle, which is the problem Steve experienced.
Happily, because the problem is quite common now, there are
