Same here the mechanic said the part was gonna be about 900 dollars and the labor was probably going to be another 3-400, did it myself for about $145

@@albertcorrales14 You guys are good, I watched the video and I had a panic/anxiety attack. This is like brain surgery to me. But looking at how long it took to do the video, the labour shouldn't be more than 30 minutes plus idle relearn (about 20 minutes). Total labour should be about 1 hour. However, the mechanic may be charging extra labour to drain the coolant and fill.

he drained the radiator (another hidden step often not included in YT videos)

You will definitely want to put the clip back on. This vehicle was completely drained of fluid. My rule of thumb is "If there is a clamp placed from the factory, name sure you put it back on." There are very likely redundancies from the factory, but since I don't know exactly which ones are necessary or not, just keep them on, that will prevent possible leakage issues in the future.

I saw this done in another vid by a guy who had coolant in his and he accidentally spilled coolant removing the line, so definitely clamp them off with pliers/vice grips if you're doing this on a undrained car

I completely misunderstood the question. @kwirk, thank you for answering it.

Mr B FPV No problem! Thanks for the video, very helpful for when I do this repair later this week

I have seen some issues regarding the throttle position sensor. The sensor should be able to "learn" what correct position is. Try these steps that someone with the same model did and it worked. Good luck. - unplugged battery and hit brake couple times to discharge car. Waited 10 mins. - connected battery, started car and let sit in park for about 20 mins. - put in 'D' and sat for 5-10mins. - went for drive with some easy and hard driving

So do you disconnect the negative? I have an 05 3s

You have to pull the red tab out. that will unlock the plastic release tab. Then you can press it down and then wiggle the plug to while applying pulling pressure. depending on how stuck it is, you may have to apply more force.

Mr B FPV thanks, ive located the red tab.

Do you pull it out all the way

You can drain the coolant. But realistically we all probably don’t want to. You can get pinch pliers to put on the hose that has coolant before taking it off.

@@micah1121 thank you.. I pinched them off with vise grips and worked out great! It's all done hopefully I did it right 🤣🤞

@@anonymousche8552 and how's the damage to the hose as a result of the pinching?

@@Liberty1877 there's no damage to it. Car is still running great after a year of me replacing the throttle body

All you should need is the ring. If there is a problem with the throttle body you would replace it. Otherwise you would just replace the ring.

Reset the ecu. Or typically people unplug the battery for a couple minutes and then reconnect. let the car run for 10mins then turn on the ac to full blast. Let it run for 10mins, turn on the headlights, let it run for 10 minutes. Then your good to go. This process allows the throttle body and maf to relearn the airflow coming in to be properly calculated by ecu without any load, and then as you add more load.

You dont need to. But I recommend that anytime you are disconnecting sensor wiring to just do anyway. It wont hurt

Theres another video where a person removes it without disconnecting batt and it causes major issues with the computer

@@down4thecause Did it without disconnecting the battery. Made sure the ignition was off, key out of ignition lock. No problems at all, no issues, no DCT faults. Just a perfect running engine without auto stop at traffic lights :)

was it the same?

Yup