E38 pedal options.
Looking through our E38 diagrams this is what I found. Unfortunately it does not say a make/model. Everything else in the book looks like it is a 2006 Corvette. So here is what I have, hopefully it can help in some way.
You should be able to set one lead of the DMM against the 'A' terminal & the other against the 'B' terminal (holding both DMM leads with one hand), then slowly depress the pedal & watch the values on the DMM. The resistance should change proportionally to how far down you press the pedal, & how quickly it's pressed down. The two things to watch for are that
A) the values change smoothly & proportionally to where the pedal position is; and
B) you don't have any "dead spots" where the resistance suddenly shoots up to infinity, & then right afterwards starts reading in the normal range again.
That tests the first variable resistor, you can test the 2nd one by repeating the same process with the 'D' and 'E' pins on the pedal. And now that I think about it, I believe that the two resistors should have the same values, so the start & end values should be very similar, as well as the behavior of each resistor as you're testing them.B) you don't have any "dead spots" where the resistance suddenly shoots up to infinity, & then right afterwards starts reading in the normal range again.
(Can anyone think of anything that I've missed??)
I know that probably looks like a pretty "wordy" description, but the process is really pretty easy. And as far as the anti-theft stuff, I'm 99.99998% sure that's all handled in the ECM - in any event, the pedal isn't a part of that in any way.
Good luck!
