G25 throttle twitching

[Rob Every]

Might be getting old the old thing.

Noticed it the other day on a boost gauge of all things in Dirt Rally, saw the needle fluttering a little.

Got the old profiler out and sadly at full throttle there seems to be a dodgy connection as it will keep 100%most of time but it will flutter slightly too intermittently. Even on gradual applicaiotns it is slightly fluttery, not awful but enough.

All the signs of a connection issue. I guess.

Cables are all in good nick, thought it might be a slightly pulled connector but no. Put them all in fully and still doing it.

What about the other end, the pedal set, are there any issues there it could be?

 

[Emery]

The potentiometer is likely dirty after all these years (is the G25 a decade old now?!?). Disassemble and blow it out. The workaround is to recalibrate the pedals so the fluttery bit is out of range.

 

[Rob Every]

Managed to fix the potentiometer actually, bit of a ballache, but actually very simple. Was very mucky and the problem is now fixed

Hardest bit was getting the pedal base back onto the frame I am using, the basic frames are not very good with dealing with pedal bases it seems!

 

[Matt88]

Next time get squirting some wd40 over the pots and see if that helps before taking them apart. Worjed a treat for me

 

[SOLO59]

Electric Contact srapyer is recommended over WD40. Its what I used when I had G27 pedals

 

[Matt88]

Good to know thanks. Will be using that going forwards.