Mondeo throttle housing

[fixitflav]

I have a 2004 Mondeo, 2-litre petrol. Looking at throttle housing the other day and noticed it has 2 Bowden cables, one from the accelerator pedal (as you'd expect), the other going off to somewhere the other side of the engine bay. There's no problem so I didn't study it much, but I'm curious. The Haynes manual says nothing about it.

All I can think of it's for a fast idle. Anybody know?

 

[Burnerman]

As far as I know, one of the cables is directly connected to the throttle pedal and the other to a servo motor which adjusts the idle speed as you say.....it’s a sort of anti stall feature I believe.
I’ve never seen one going down the back of the engine though!
John

 

[fixitflav]

As far as I know, one of the cables is directly connected to the throttle pedal and the other to a servo motor which adjusts the idle speed as you say.....it’s a sort of anti stall feature I believe.
I’ve never seen one going down the back of the engine though!
John

OK thanks. It goes to somewhere in the back corner of the engine bay (to the right as you're looking at it). I'll have a closer look sometime.

 

[Astra99]

Is it an automatic? If so, the second bowden cable could be for the transmission speed hold.

 

[fixitflav]

Is it an automatic? If so, the second bowden cable could be for the transmission speed hold.

No, it's manual