Car’s driving itself !!!

[mike]

Hi,

Can someone please give me a bit of advice as to why my car will drive down the road without me having my foot on the accelerator ? Im guessing its my cable sticking, are these hard to change ? Could it be anything else ?

Thanks for any help !!

Mike

 

[rt172]

Poltergeist maybe?

 

[philip]

its possessed. Sprinkle it with holy water!

I guess that doesnt happy when its in neutral?

 

[BenR]

huh?

were not talking hills here are we!? lol

No, the engine at idle still produces enough power to move the car if its in gear. If your clutch is in or a gear is not engaged, i say put your handbrake on for hills lol!

 

[mike]

No its not just crawling along its accelerating at about 4500 revs, have to keep revving it to unstick it !?!? Ill try the Holy water trick anyway thanks !!

 

[philip]

eeehhh? sticking throttle cable? sounds weird. Have it checked.

 

[ak16v]

You got crusie control

 

[jimbo9999]

mine was doing this last week it was the throttle linkage just put some graphite grease on it and it was sorted

 

[epic]

maybe you tapped the cruise control?

 

[Dyewitness]

mine does this as well, and it happened with my old boys last two meganes as well....

 

[Fatherted]

its ok.............im here......let me get my water !

 

[mike]

Ok cheers, Ill get the Haynes out and find the linkage, how hard is it to change the cable, is it a proper fiddly job or straight forward ?? Bit embarrassing sitting at lights with the car revving at 5000 rpm, people look at you like youre a right mailto:tw@t">tw@t !!

 

[unofficialPete]

What car have you got? does it look a little like this..

http://www.knightregistries.com/garage/kitt.jpg

 

[jimbo9999]

find your air box and the cable goes on to the bit the air box is attached to just grease it up thats all i did and mines fine now doubt its the cable

jaimie

 

[cliocup]

sounds like cable stuck/frayed around the exit of the plastic housing. Take your airbox/induction kit off and with the throttle closed check the butterfly is actually closed ie vertical. then push the pedal slowly to the floor (engine off, obviously) and see if the throttle opens in proportion to the movement in the pedal.

If it seems to stick or catch anywhere then i should think the cables no good or wants adjusting. If all seems fine then it could be a loose throttle potentiometer (red sensor on the side of the housing) that is floating about giving crazy outputs. This may want re-setting and tightening up properly.

 

[Ben j]

its the little butterfly clip on ya accelerator cable catchin on the airbox. turn the clip to the side a bit

 

[mike]

Ok thanks everyone, Ill see what I can do !!