Edit: Thank you all so much for the visibility! This is one of my most boosted posts lol. Several people were kind enough to suggest I try to take care of it myself and I'm much more confident about trying that now. I just barely made it home after a very long day at work and a tedious commute, so I'm going to get some sleep and consider my options tomorrow. I think we've reached optimal exposure so no need to further boost, thank you.
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I'm sure this is a wildly long shot but I don't suppose anyone here on the fediverse lives in the Northern Utah area or has contacts here who would be willing to replace a throttle position sensor on an 18 year old Kia for charity so that a middle-aged queer struggling with mental health issues doesn't have to deal with a 3 hr round trip commute to work when it's a 60 mile commute?
I don’t live there but boosting for visibility. Good luck!
@LibertyForward1 nowhere near sadly but as others said, TPS replacement is fairly common and straightforward, just casting a wide net of "2006 kia TPS replacement" on YouTube pulls up tons of vids and I didn't even have a model to narrow it down to yet.