I was working today,and i ran into a fella R/T owner same color as mine Nice Guy ,kinda dont think he thought i had one though..didnt have the car I was in my Co.work truck...I go to alot of car shows and people always come up to us and say oh i have a car too..I saywhere is it they say home ...So he might have thought i was blowing smoke but anyways IM NOT i have one...Now on to my question we were talking about the throttle re-calibration and he asked if i knew how to check the pedal number i thought you hold down the 2 buttons and this will show you threw the menu i did that all it says with the car off is 0% when its running it will say 19% 20% i give it gas it goes up 50% and so on but he kinda made it sound like it will tell you if the car is using the whole 100% of the throttle he said his was 85% when he bought it now he has it up to 105% how do i check if im using all 100% of my throttle ???????Thanks

 

Sounds to me like he's referring to the same procedure that you've done, i.e., going into diagnostic mode to read your pedal position.

However, if that is the case, then he is the only person that I've seen reading all the forums to claim seeing a number greater than 100%.

Otherwise, I don't know of anything else he could be referring to.

So far, the consensus is that the throttle cal procedure changes how the throttle valve reacts to pedal inputs. It doesn't widen or narrow the 0-100% operating range.

Having said that, I think Dodgemech had some other input on the throttle cal procedure, but I don't remember exactly what he posted.


EDIT: Oh yeah, if you're in diagnostic mode and you go from the ON position to ACC, Pedal position shows 102%, regardless of what you do to the pedal. That's the only time I've ever heard of anything greater than 100%. Software version 3.61

 

Has anybody read this in a service manual yet? My theory is that it lets the ECU know what resistance the pedal gives during its travel to the floor, so that it has an accurate reading.

 

I noticed that same 102% on the throttle setting, I assume for starting purposes, but I also noticed that when in the screen that shows pedal position of 0% will change when sitting there, engine off.

The interesting thing is that 100% throttle, the pedal is over an inch off the floor... I did the calibrate deal and it didn't change.

Another one of those 'does yours do this? questions..

Getting a pair of sxt grills painted now...I do like the look better than the stock RT grill..

Mike