his accelerator got stuck

[HerbalDayZ]

OWWW leave him alone he was crying the whole time .
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[greatmoorred]

I had something similar happen a couple of years ago. I was on my way back from london,stopped to get some petrol and as it was sunday evening and pretty quiet on the M6 i thought i would give my lovely 16v Cally a bit of a blast from the re entry lane, so i go through all the gears with my foot nailed to the floor, get into fifth and think " Right, thats enough now" at about 95-100mph.
Only when i take my foot off the pedal the car wont slow down, in fact its still speding up. Put the clutch in and the revs rush straight up to 6000. Not good.
Very scary. What do you do ?
Knock it into neutral, which takes away the power, but the engine is literally going to explode if it carries on revving that high.Put it back inti gear and try to brake. No . Turn off the engine and knock it into neutral and cruise to a halt on the hard shoulder using what little brakes i had with no servo.
The whole incident probably lasted about 20 seconds ( from when i wanted to slow down ) but when your friendly car suddenly goes mad it scares the crap out of you.
Turned out to be pretty simple too. The gasket on the Air intake was old and half of it had been dragged into the butterfly and jammed it open, when i floored it so hard.
Being a great driver though, i didnt panic and fuck it up like that numbnuts

[feef]

[Barry_M2]

You CAN knock an auto into Neutral even when accelerating, there is no pressure on the lever like in a manual. I've done it a few time's by accident im my Supra. You dont need to put any more pressure on it, it will move the same as if its standing still.

You can also turn the engine off while in gear, you just cant turn it to the fully 'off' position, but you certainly can kill the engine.

To be honest, I dont believe that story at all, I just think the guy didn't know how to drive an auto, or was extreemly stupid!

[Lone-Wolf]

[Walloper]

you can on mine too....
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[HerbalDayZ]

Don't know if true but speaking to a friend who owns a mitsi automataic said .

By turning off the ignition the stearing lock will come on lose abs braking an powerstearing .Now if i had the thought of that at 120mph i sure wouldnt be trying to turn no ignition off.

Also listen to the sound interview he says .I could not turn it off when the car is in gear you cant kill the engine ? unless in park or nutural
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[Adam_P]

[HerbalDayZ]

[Adam_P]

For a start, as I've said before, I very much doubt a 318 will do 135mph.

And read what I say, a car will have brakes AND steering even if you turn the ignition off. Like I said, they would become very hard, but they still work, enough to get a car slowed down and to a stop at least.

And I don't believe that he could have travelled for that amount of distance either. I used to travel that part of the A1 a lot and there are plenty of places where doing 90mph isn't clever, let alone in an out of control BMW at 135...

Yes, BMW will go over the car with a fine tooth comb making sure that nothing of theirs failed. They'd especially want to know what happened if they thought he was bullshitting, as it puts them in a bad light.

And I can't imagine anyone having the calm to call first of all the AA, then talk to the police while trying to keep a car under control at 135 either, can you???
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[SoND]

[HerbalDayZ]

Yea idd i didnt say he wouldnt stear did i ?

I said power stearing ABS an any other electrical thing !!! .Still wouldnt like to controll the car myself
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[colin1]

the bmw guy shdnt have asked the aa or the police

most ppl on bcf wd have told him to just turn off the ignition

problem solved

the aa or the police shd have asked us really
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[Walloper]

Turn off the ignition and use our 'Spell Checker' application two FFS.
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[feef]

[John C]

[lilredmachine]

You would not like to attempt that which people are suggesting if this happened in a Citreon XM.

[Walloper]

[stinkwheel]

As Feef said, and as I have already said once. If the ignition was turned off with the car still in gear, the engine would keep turning until the car came to a halt.

If the engine is turning, so is the hydraulic pump and therefore the power steering and brake assist will work.
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[The View Askew]

[akaDAVE]

Take another look at the bloke, he's a proper spastic. He's talking out of his arse.


60 miles at 135mph, mmmmmmm.
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[innominate]

Mby it was just his second chin resting on the pedal that was causing the issues all along?
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[cliff]

hes a weirdo, hes just doing it and claiming hes got trauma and emotional damage! i watched him on gmtv or this morning, cant remember, he seemed like a twat!
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[GearboxGeezer]