ford focus unexpected acceleration

Your BRAKES should be looked at by a competent mechanic. If you were standing on the BRAKE pedal and the car accelerated, there is something very wrong with the BRAKE system.

As far as the unintended acceleration is concerned, I'd be looking very closely at the cruise control and throttle cables and the throttle body to make sure nothing's broken or damaged, which could certainly cause the throttle to stick open.

Have you or anyone else done any work under the hood recently?

Any properly operating braking system will easily overpower the motor of most cars. You should be able to drive with a wide open throttle, even keep one foot on the gas pedal and still bring your car to a stop with the brakes without a considerable increase in braking distance.

As he said, your brakes are suspect if you couldn't slow it down.

This all sounds familiar to me. I seem to recall reading this very same post before. A bit of Trolling perhaps?

Rob

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"malcolmm" wrote ...

Don't know about this particular thread, but in general these periodic unintended acceleration posts that pop up on various newsgroups from time to time do seem to be a Trolling activity - a very special kind of Trolling. Trolling for big bucks, as in class-action lawsuits. Didn't work in the 80s with the Audi Victims Network fraud, won't work now either.

It is possible that this "malcolmm" guy is sincere, in which case he was probably pressing the accelerator rather than the brakes by mistake. The less likely situation is that he does have both a throttle problem and almost useless brakes, but that's a pretty unusual combination.

Yes. Brief engine racing, but it's only happened to me with the clutch in and no load on the engine.

"Dave Gower" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@magma.ca:

"Troll". Have been lurking in this group for the last year and when I have a problem and post it's taken as...

No my foot was not on the brake. Going down the highway at 110 kms with no feet on the pedals I think there is a problem and when I came to a stop the engine raced because it was forced to gear down (I put it in nutral) and the revs went up to the sky!

And my brakes... from the $510. bill I just had them done.

So guys I am not a Troll but just a person looking for advice not redicule.

Malc

"malcolmm" wrote

OK, but reread your first post, and especially the subject title. It looked like you were saying that the car sped up in spite of you applying the brakes. Now that you have clarified it, this is a simple case of a stuck throttle, which is something very different from "unexpected acceleration", to quote you precisely.

Many people are unaware of the long and nasty history behind the issue of "unintended acceleration" or the fact that there are nutball anti-corporate activists and sleazy contingency lawyers constantly looking to fabricate a case. That's why precision is important in discussing any such cases.