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Code P2101- Throttle Actuator Control motor circuit

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Last Sunday I was driving home 2 hours away and the car started acting funny about half way through. I would give it gas and the rpm would jolt up and down causing back fire. When I was about 25 mins away I lost all boost so I puled over and noticed it was a coupler that had blown off. I limped it the rest of the way. By the time I got home there was a check engine light. Which was the P2101, I shrugged it off think it was due to the coupler. It didn't go away so Tuesday I cleaned the throttle body and it went away later that day. Thursday I start the car and the check engine light is on and I'm driving it to work when it goes into limp mode. I limped it back home. I replaced the throttle body today, I thought it was the throttle body gone bad. Nope, still in limp mode. I did the 10 second on then 10 second off to reteach it.

Any ideas on what it could be? The code popping up is still the P2101
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Maybe a bad harness or dirty ECU connections?
I'll check the eco connection tomorrow. Stupid question: do I have to program the ECU with the throttle body like other cars?
Should be plug and play, no programming required.

When you first try and start, just turn on the ignition and do not touch the gas pedal. Then turn it off. Then start. Should be good to go.
I did that. I got a gas pedal coming and if that doesn't fix it I'm guessing it's going be the ECU. The wiring harness is intact without any Knicks or cuts so I'm ruling it out.
looks like only 2 out of the 5 pins from the throttle body is sending out an signal to the ECU. I'm going get a wire diagram tomorrow to know exactly what those 5 pins are too.
Both the gas pedal and the throttle position sensor have two outputs each. One signal increase and the other decreases.
Looks like the ECU is bad. I have a bk1 ECU could I send it to SFR or alpha speed to reflash/tuned with a canned tune for a bk2?
I doubt it. The BKs injectors are different ohms and the wastegate too.
When you first try and start, just turn on the ignition and do not touch the gas pedal. Then turn it off. Then start. Should be good to go.



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