Revs on its own

[zadam123]

I think my car is possessed, so far this used to happen every once in a while but it is happening more often,

When i first dirve the car it runs fine but on my way to work something weird happens, it seems to be reving high, what i mean is, if im in traffic or even driving on the highway and i put the car in nutrual it revs at 2500 rpm, now it dont happen when i start the car and even tapping on the gass dont bring it down, now heres the wierd part , when i get off the highway about 40 minutes later and get to my fist light i put it in nutral and it revs at 2500 for a few seconds and starts to go down on its own,.

Any ideas what is causing this?

adam

[Hotsauce]

check the cruise control cable/quadrant, be sure its not sticking. If you have any doubt, pull the cable off till you're sure its safe.

John C.

[VX crazy]

Sounds like the idle air control valve is sticking in the throttle body. Remove the 2 torx screws holding it in (opposite side of TB from TPS) and clean the carbon out of the orifice and plunger.

[thebear54]

Adam,
Clean the air control and run some injector cleaner through your tank to get rid of the gunk on the injector tips. When was the last time you changed your fuel filter? Just 4 cents
John

[SPAZZ]

I have had this happen often. Every once in a while my VX will not run on its own, I have to hold the gas pedal down when starting and shifting just to make it not die. Then after this happens and I have driven it to where I need to go and shut it off, when I get back in it and start it up it revs about to 3500 RPM and stays there no matter what. This makes it very difficult to stop when I hit a red light or stop sign...as the VX is trying to go go go and the brakes are trying to stop stop stop with very little positive stopping power.

[xdfarrx]

intake gaskets and tps/carbon build up...
fairly common issue