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Car nearly exploded...why?

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  • Start date Start date Mar 21, 2009

KingofBattle119

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So after a couple passes at the local 8th mile I was driving home when I downshifted to pass a car at 45mph. I got on it, and after a moment, my tach shot instantly up to 7000+RPM, motor screaming bloody murder. I shut the car off and coasted to a stop, and even with the car off the tach still stuck at over 7 grand. When I manually open the throttle body (which is brand new btw) something bounces on the throttle cable.

When I started the car back up, it started normally and after a second or two the tach returned to normal and I drove it home without incident. What the hell happened??
 

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Sounds like your floor mat got stuck under the accelerator pedal. It's never happened to me, but it's happened to a lot of people.
 

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Also be sure the throttleblade isnt getting stuck.
 

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or your throttle cable isn't binding or sticking
 

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lol it definitely wasn't the floormat, and I'll check those other two things now that it's not 2am in the middle of nowhere.
 

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Last year my floormat got stuck with pedal all the way down at a stop sign i went accross the other lane of traffic and parked it on the oposite side of the rode it was pretty wild, lets just say theres only 3 floor mats in my car now
 

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Three floor mats....LMAO.

Yeah check that cable and blade. Ive had the cable get stuck before just not at Wide open.
 
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