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Yesterday while parking in front of Sears I came within inches of driving through the building. I started braking and all of sudden my VX took a sudden leap forward. It sounded like a loud rev and i'm pretty sure I didn't hit the accelerator. I had to slam the brakes real hard to stop in time. Is it maybe something wrong with the idle, motor, transmission? Anyone else ever hear of something similar? Now I have reserves about letting my wife drive it to work. :confused::confused::confused:
I gotta ask Brandon, do you have floor mats? I had a scary incident a few years back with my Explorer when she took off like a bat-outta-hell down the freeway until I realized the floor mat had slid forward and jammed against the gas pedal, it gets your attention!
X2 on the floor mat cluster#### :eek:
Been there too...near heart attack!
Good first place to check .
jo
Ok, i'll check that in the morning. Thanks. I thought maybe it could be some sort of idle surge.
Same thing happened to me after an offroading trip where I went through deep water. Everytime I pressed the brake pedal engine would rev up, algo everytime I put it in Park engine would rev up.
Also If I turned the lights on engine would rev up until I turned them off.
Pretty sure it was a wet sensor, It stopped doing that a couple of days later. My guess, the sensor dried.
Check your ICV idle control valve or FPR fuel pressure regulator. A search on here should be enough reading for you to figure the details.
http://www.vehicross.info/forums/showthread.php?t=12726
http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...lve#post248880
http://www.vehicross.info/forums/sho...+control+valve
I have a new Idle air control valve that I have just not installed yet. I also have a fuel pressure regulator sitting in my shopping cart on ebay that I just haven't bought yet.
Had mine do that once also. I changed the FPR not long afterwards and it's never happened again, but that doesn't mean what caused my incident couldn't have been a bunched up floor mat that I didn't notice at the time or the IAC valve.
I'd have to go with having your foot on the accelerator & brake at the same time. It happens more often than you'd think. I've had to re-program my foot to avoid that problem.
I forgot to mention that when this happened to me, I also still had aftermarket gas and brake pedals installed over the stock pedals that had been added by the previous/original owner of my VX.
Those have since been removed, but at the time it could have also been a situation in my case like Tom described where both pedals were being pressed at the same time.
X2 on Tom's and Trekk's suggestions! I've accidently mashed on both pedals at the same time and aftermarket pedal covers can definitely compound the problem. In these situations, Occam's razor usually applies...