Sometimes when I take off slow, my car floors itself!!!! I swear to god I think that it's posessed!!! What happens is when I hit the turn signal, I accidentally hit the cruise control switch. But why does it do that? Also, the accelerate switch doesn't work. What could be my problem?

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'82 Firebird, dead stock, 9 bolt disc rear, over 200,000 miles and still going strong, more to come...
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Does your speedometer work?

If the speedo is broke the car may not see the speed correctly and therefor keep trying to accelerate. My '82 did this also before I sold it. I almost rearended a cop because of this, but you can win bets with friends that your car is posessed and will accelerate on its own.

 

i'd guess the wires from the turn signal lever are broke, or breaking. there are 4 very thin wires in it that get brittle with age.

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ICON Motorsports
1st & 3rd

 

Somewhere else this site, I responded to a post describing similar behavior. I had the same problem on my Monte Carlo SS about a year ago (identical stalk).

This can be caused by one of two things. In my case, I simply replaced both:

1) The wires in the turn signal/high beam/windshield wiper/cruise stalk are worn and shorting.

2) The cruise unit is defective. Older cruise units CAN short out with age and do strange things such as accelerate the car for you, unexpectedly. There was a 60 Minutes / 20/20 / Dateline segment a few years back that illustrated this problem as well. Fords seem to be the worst.

My Monte accelerated by itself one too many times on my wife and she has not driven it since...

As I said, both the stalk and the cruise unit were replaced the the behavior stopped. I did both because my turn signals and wipers/washer were also arbitrarily misbehaving in this timeframe.

 

mine did that same dam thing its the cruise control unit under the hood its on the fritz just imagine.... being at a stoplight in front of a cop and that happens... what joy!

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1989 firebird formula

Mods: converted from T.B.I. to a carburator 305 to a 350. Flowmater exhaust,hedman shortie hedders,202 heads,350 horse cam,bored.40 over, Edlebrock torker2 intake.

Future mods performer rpm air gap intake (polished) and 600 edlebrock carb, comp roller cam, and way better headsa 400 defintely in the works!