How do you change a Throttle cable in a RHD UrS6 Auto??

[Andyh-R6S]

How on earth do you get the throttle cable plastic retainer through the bulkhead?

It looks like it is a ‘one shot’ device and you have to break it to get it out? I have left it alone at present as I am getting pretty frustrated trying to remove it as there is no room to manoeuvre around the accelerator pedal/dashboard area and the engine bay on the other side. I have tried squeezing it together to get it out but no joy There is an electrical connection in the throttle cable at the bulkhead end that I have disconnected but there is no way this is coming out easily. It looks like you push a new one in to place through the bulkhead from the engine bay and it snaps into place and self locks itself. I know I have to get a new throttle cable anyway to get rid of the idle offset it was causing but I was hopping the removal of the throttle cable would be easy.

Do the new throttle cables come with this micro-switch, etc?

Need help here as it is not obvious, even if I look in my Bentley manual or the useless Haynes version.

[Andyh-R6S]

The new throttle cable arrived!!

The new throttle cable arrived and now it’s obvious that it would not really come out of the bulkhead unless it is destroyed in the first place or you had bionic fingers to compress all three locking spigots at the same time!! (Audi must have a tool for this job!!).

The rubber shroud that encapsulates the internal workings had come adrift on mine, instead of being trapped (Held) between the bulkhead and the inside of the switch block. So, new throttle cable (“£40”), new throttle pedal (Accident while leaning on it, broke the plastic foot grip, ouch “£55”).

The rubber shroud needed to be trapped/held between the bulkhead and the switch block, otherwise the internal spring mechanism does not return the throttle back to its normal position and this was causing my car to have a high idle, Kangaroo petrol and odd starting issues, etc. (The attached pictures shows the collapsed one (Or should I say what’s left of it) and the new one.)