I watched that Worse Case Scenario show last nite about what you should do if your gas pedal sticks.

Well, this did happen to me once, and I was scared, but what I did , was just put my foot all the way down on the brakes, the car didn't stop right away but did eventually, now, here I am stopped at WOT, so I tried to put the car in P soon as I could to shut it off, which if you have the B&M Megashifter isn't easy.

They were talkin about jumping out the car and stuff if the brakes don't stop you. My question is what would you do?

I think I would rather put the car in N, hitting the brakes and just let the motor blow rather than jumping out and having the car crash.

 

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Does turning off the key not shut off the engine?

 

Yes, but then your steering will lock.

 

Let out a joyous yell and see how fast you can get the car up to before smashing into a telephone pole or oncoming car?

:hail: :lala:

 

I think I'll go try it today. I thought you were still able to unlock the steering.
If not, you spend most of your time driving straight right?

 

Engine off.
Steering will unlock, no power steering, not much on the power brake too, handbrake should not be a good idea... locks the wheels, may be ok in straight line. with manual trany down shift.

 

i have had my engine shut off on me while i was driving down the road. it isn't that hard to drive a camaro without power brakes or steering, you just need to be rough with it.

i would kill then engine and then turn the ignition back on so i still have a steering wheel that can turn.

i don't consider it that much of a problem

 

Turn off the key long enough to kill the engine and then turn it back on and steer and stop. Those shows are a joke.

 

well one day my throttle got stuck at 2500 rpms and i was on a busy highway i guess u could say and what i did was push on the brakes alittle and gave the gas pedal a quick rev and it unstuck. after that i had no problems. but it was scare becuz i let off the gas but it stayed.

 

If you turn the ignition off, you won't lock the steering wheel. I saw the same show last night and was when they said that, what morons. You ignition works like this:

Acc.
Steering Lock (Key can be pulled out/pushed in)
Ignition Off
Ignition On
Start

Oh, to answer the original question (from experience when I was a teen) ... Kill the engine, put it in neutral and come to a stop. No brainer, big f'ing deal.

 

I've had that happen to me before.

I was driving a car that I was thinking of buying. It was a '78 TA, Olds 403, AT, etc.

I was cruising along and said to myself "Lets see what this thing can do." I was already going ~35MPH when I floored it. I came up to a red light and the pedal was stuck!!!!!!

Lucky for me there weren't any cars in the right lane because I blew right through it and took a right turn. The brakes sure weren't strong enough to fight that beast.

The right turn lane was a actually a curve that went onto a bridge. When I was on the bridge, I tried to put the car in Neutral and shut it off. Well, that shifter (stock) wasn't set up to let you turn off the car while in Neutral!!!!!

So here I come up to the next light with the engine screaming like a raped nun!!!!! I took the next right and parked it in a Hospital parking lot, and shut her down. The engine was smoking like crazy!!!

I went in the hospital, called the guy up and said, "Uhhh.....Come get your car. The gas pedal stuck on me, and I think I blew the engine." Turned out to be antifreeze that squirted through a hose clamp onto the engine

So evidently that was my first instinct, to shut the engine off. It would have been nice if that car would have shut off while in Neutral. That would have helped A LOT!!!!!!

AJ

 

My car can be turned off in neutral, park, and any gear. Stock shifter.
My throttle stuck once and I had to come to a stop light. I used two feet on the brake and it stopped. The engine was at 2300 but I just drove it to where I could park it. Then I put the car in neutral, engine went to 3800, I turned if off and fixed the jam.

 

I have had it Happen Twice.

Just Turn the car off, No Big deal.

I also removed my steering lock.

However, the first time it happend to Me was interesting,

See, My car had just been stolen(Whole nother story), and i had only recently reclaimed it.

The people who stole it Had broken the steering colum and Jammed a screwdriver in the igniton linkage ( don't ever belive your thirdgen or other 70'80's odel GM can't be stolen in 5 minutes or less with nothing more than a Flat blade srcewdriver )

So, Since i had yet to fix the damage, I was forced to start and stop my car with a screwdriver.

So Im headed down a back country road, and The throttle jams open at WOT, I forget the cause but it was something stupid.

I go to turn the car offf and Behold, No key!

So I have to mash the brake with both feet, Steer with the left hand while I wiggle and jamb and manipulate this screwdriver in and around the linkage.

Finally got it shut off going about 80 on a little country road.

Fixed the colum the next day

 

I was wondering would this work if you had no brakes?
My brakes decided not to work on me and made it home. But got a firm yelling at from my father. Brake fluid was low. real low.
luckly i was driving 5mph home. And home was really close
What would be the best thing to do?

 

I've already had that happen. My throttle stuck at almost WOT in the rain. After I slid all over the place, I just turned my engine off, put the car in neutral and rolled into a parking lot.

That was nothing compared to when I had a blowout going 80mph on the freeway... Talk about having the crap scared out of you :P One piece of advice, if you ever do have a blowout, whether on the freeway or not, don't hit the brakes, the car will violently pull to the side with 2 tires :P Just roll to a stop.

 

in the brake situation you did the right thing. keep it SLOW.....turn the hazard lights on and baby it home. If on the freeway when they fail, you can either downshift (manual) or use the hand brake *carefully*. keep your thumb on the release button and don't engage it to where the tires lock, just enough to get some braking action.

BTW, if you're going somewhere between 30-45mph, speed depending on car, you can crank the wheel and pull the hand brake while holding the release lever and pull off one of the quickest U-turns possible (don't use the foot pedal)

 

Had it happen to me in my convertible. The throttle linkage jammed on the TBI unit itself. All I did was disengage the clutch, shut off the engine and steered it to the side of the road. It was no big deal to steer the vert with no power steering. Got out, fixed the linkage and I was on my way. Never happened again.

 

That worst case show is retarded. None of that stuff would work for you. If your throttle is stuck, turn the key off. Your steeing won't lock up. Ever shut your car of while it's still in gear? The key won't turn all the way back until you put it in park. It's designed for such a situation. Anyways, back in early 1998, I was moving to New Jersey from Oklahoma City with my wife and son who was 4 months old at the time. I was driving a 24' Ryder truck and towing a car trailer. We were driving through Tennessee and poking along up this mountian on the Interstate about 30mph. The truck was governed at about 70mph. Finally got to the top of the hill and I had it floored the whole time. Started going back down and it got up to 70. I kept my foot on the gas. THEN, the highway started to narrow down to one lane for construction and the traffic. I let off the gas, but the engine RPM's didn't go down. About the same time, I notice that traffic right ahead of me is STOPPED!!!! I stomped up and down on the gas to get it to let off, but it wouldn't. I hit the brakes and they had little effect. I finally turned the key off. The brakes BARELY worked and the steering was really tight. At the speed I was going, I wasn't going to be able to stop in time before smashing into a bunch of cars. There were people on the shoulder, so I had no choice but to pull the whole thing into the left lane which dropped about 8" from the right lane since they had scraped the top of that lane. There were orange barrels in the left lane. I was hitting them as I was changing lanes and barely kept the whole truck from tipping over. I kept hitting orange barrels and some of them were going in the right lane hitting cars. I finally stopped and got out. My wife had been screaming bloody murder the whole time. Nobody stopped even after having their cars hit with orange barrels. The throttle cable was frayed. I was able to cut the frays off with some pliers and get it going and drive it into Cookeville,TN. Ryder SUCKS. They wouldn't re-imburse me for the two days I had to spend in Cookeville. The guy that came to fix the truck took 6 hours to get there only to look at it and decide that he had to drive to MEMPHIS to get the part. About 200 miles away. I can drive in my car from OKC to NJ in a day and a half. It took a WEEK in that Ryder truck. One of the most miserble weeks I can ever remember in my life! If you need to rent a long haul truck, go with Penske. A lot cheaper and easier to deal with than Ryder. Trucks are nicer too. Matt

 

I had this happen in two of my cars over the years. My 4cyl Muskrat was first, was giving it gas to come up to speed and it stuck wide open. Thank *** it was a 4 cyl. I held it until I got some speed up, turned off the ignition, coasted for a while then fired it again. Maybe not the safest, but I got home.

The next time was in my Firebird. I threw the t-56 into neutral and let the motor bounce off the MSD until I got the pedal back.

Mark

 

I can't believe some of you are that stupid that if your throttle stuck the first thing you wouldn't do is simply turn the key off. It's one of the first things i think i learned when i was learning to drive because it is such a basic yet important feature.

Instead you'd try to kill yourself and others wrestling the car with the brakes.

And if the brakes fail, thats what the e-brake is for.

The sad part is i probably pay more for car insurance than some of you for a few small speeding tickets. Meanwhile you ***wipes don't even have a basic capacity to react calmy and appropriately in a worst case scenario.

I really hope none of you geniuses ever go anywhere nea r a racetrack. I really don't feel like getting t-boned by some slow car that the driver **** his pants or threw it in neutral cuz his brakes went down, or throttle jammed. I would extract vengeance from Valhalla

 

And I can't believe that you're a moderator on this board and you think you can talk to people like that. Calling people asswipes and talking to them like they're stupid. What's crawled up your butt? I know to turn my key off, and everybody should, but just because they don't, doesn't mean they're ignorant. The only one here that sounds ignornt to me is YOU. Grow up. Matt

 

Some people are stupid and have to be talked to as such.

 

i think i'm going to have to agree with mr.z from palmdale as well as ed and zbra on this one and lock it when i'm done. i bet there's more than one persone here that had their resume stamped reject by nasa.