Unintended acceleration

[Tom Donohue]

I forgot to mention in my original post, the temparature last night in
Western Mass. (FAR Southwestern Mass., actually) was about 7 deg. F when
the incident happened.  Today, when I tried to reproduce the problem, it
was no warmer that 20 deg.  Tom

BRIAN O'NEILL wrote:

> my 93 90 did this last year. according to the dash it
> was about 10 below. i had just pulled on the highway
> and shifted from 4th to 5th and thought something was
> strange so i let off the gas and the car keep going.i
> just pulled of at the next exit,shut her down,popped
> the hood, took the top engine cover off and when to
> reach for the linkage and i heard a " pop " . it
> unthawed itself, i guess. never happened again,
> although these past couple of days i keep lettin up on
> the gas every once in a while to check.
>
>                                brian o'
> 93 90 cs
> 90 80
> 88 944 turbo s
> --- Tom Donohue <donohue at netconnx.net> wrote:
> > Hi all...had an unusual occurrance last night on my
> > way home from Christmas
> > dinner.  Just reached the bypass where I was able to
> > pass some slower
> > traffic, floored the 200q20v and the throttle stuck
> > wide open.  The pedal was
> > not stuck...put my foot under it thinking this would
> > help...and it didn't.  I
> > tried braking, hoping that it would help...and it
> > didn't.  Finally disengaged
> > the clutch, steered to the right, planning to shut
> > it down.  The engine
> > revved to 7k+, then returned to idle as if nothing
> > ever happened, and
> > continued operating normally for the last 15 miles
> > or so to home.  I haven't
> > seen any similar pattern before, nor have I heard of
> > same.   Anyone have any
> > similar experiences or ideas?  Regards, Tom Donohue
> >
> >
> >
>
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