So i was on my way home from work today and decided to punch it by my house. I have a REALLY long (about 2 1/2 miles) of straight road by my house so when I turned onto it I punched it and around 100mph I let off the gas and THE CAR KEPT ACCELERATING!!!! I was like WTF? So I let it go for a second longer and it still didn't slow down. By this point I was around 110mph and still going. I hit the brake to see if maybe that would fix it... it didn't so I threw it in neutral and my RPMS the went to redline. As soon as i saw them going way up I turned the car off to avoid damage. After the car was off I started slowing down then realized that my gas pedal was still stuck to the floor! I had to use my foot and pull from the underside of the pedal to get it back up. I then pushed it to the floor again (with the car still off) and it stuck right to the floor again! There is nothing around there for it to get stuck on... any ideas on whats going on? SCARED the crap out of me! Had I been on a twisty road that would have been REALLY bad!

Josh

 

crazy!

Is that a floor mounted pedal, or does it hinge from up under the dash?

 

Hinges from the top.

Josh

 

is it hard to push down with your hand? maybe the hinge is full of dirt?

 

No, it's easy... until the last inch then it hits a hard spot and then easily goes the rest of the way. It never did that before.

Josh

 

that'd be a tough one to explain to the cops..


'yeah, sorry, i didn't mean to go that fast, but the car just kept accelerating on its own'

'i'm sure... why don't you walk back to the cruiser with me...'

 

Already been done. On speeders episode "trouble with numbers" a lady blames her sunroof for her speed and the car accelerating. it was ridiculous.

 

It has to be something to do with the way the pedal assembly is mounted, if it were an internal thing holding the pedal to the floor it would engage one of the 3 safety measures and cut the throttle. I would take the assembly out and see if it still sticks when fully depressed, if it does, audi should have a law suit on their hands.

 

Floor mats?!?!

Consider examining how your floor ar positioned.

I actually had something similar happen to me about 15 years ago, when i was stationed in Germany. Didn't *floor* it, though, but I was rolling at about a buck-and-a-quarter-ish when I lifted... Except, it dint slow down (I'm sure YOU know the feeling, too, now) and I NEEDED it to SLOW DOWN!!! Not one to panic, I quickly reasoned there was a problem with the gas pedal (since my '93 Calibra wasn't new enuff to have a drive-by-wire setup). Reached with my toe and tried to pull the pedal back up while ridin down my speed with the brakes. Took me a while, and a short trip along the shoulder to avoid rear-ending the truck that had pulled out to pass, as I tried to morph a booted foot into a prehensile appendage... Once I got my heart-rate back under 1000, I took a look down there to see WTF and all I could see was that my ridiculously heavy winter floor mats (you know, the 50lb rubber ones with channels & grooves deep enough to hide the Grand Canyon in? yeah, one of those) was partially cocked and over the bottom half of the pedal.

Check your mats. If you have aftermarket mats that may be your culprit. Factory mats snap down, methinks!

 

Damn Josh! That sounds scary as heck. Glad nothing horrible happened tho.

Wasn't this the case that Toyota is facing now? Car accelerating on its own which had caused many accidents throughout the years. Toyota said it had something to do with the floor mat.

Jazz - 15 years ago? You started driving when you were 3?