When stopped at a traffic light, the vehicle surged forward. The consumer was able to control the vehicle and pulled off the road. The consumer will contact the dealer about this issue. Please provide any further details.
1999 Audi A6 acceleration complaints
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Consumer's wife had a bad experience last month with the cruise control. She had the cruise set at 75 MPH and hit the brakes to turn off the cruise control, but vehicle did not respond. She turned off the switch on the steering column, and that did not stop the cruise control. She put both feet on the brakes and tried to stop vehicle, but the engine continued to run. Fortunately, consumer was able to power brake the vehicle, and bring it over to the shoulder of the highway. Then, brought the speed down enough to slam the transmission into park, and abruptly stop the vehicle's motion. All four wheels were smoking, and she turned the vehicle off. She called the maplewood audi dealer, where consumer had the car in for full service and scheduled a checkup. Vehicle was towed to the dealer, and kept for diagnostic investigation by the technician. When the technician turned the vehicle on engine revved and rpms went back up. The service department pulled the throttle cable from vehicle. And discovered cracks in the housing of the cable. But were not certain that this was the problem. It was technician's guess. Consumer's wife questioned this because of the cruise control which was not cable related.
In early march 2004 mr groza was driving in cleavland, ohio on the highway doing about 65 MPH. When he took foot off the accelerator pedal vehicle would not slow down. Mr groza said the vehicle actually accelerated. Mr groza was able to stop the vehicle with great difficulty by hitting the brakes as hard as possible, and putting the transmission in neutral. The engine went to redline. Mr groza pulled to the side of the road and turned off the engine. On march 16, a few days after the incident mr. Groza took the vehicle to dealer, and dealer could find anything wrong with the car.
Vehicle accelerated three times in below zero degree weather. *ph *sc
Consumer stated car just took off at a high rate of speed, and it almost hit another car, and son was nearly killed. It was hard to believe until consumer drove the car 3 weeks ago in temperature of 12 degrees. Consumer was pulling off the northway onto route headed west when the car just took off by itself. Consumer checked cruise control to see if it was on, it was not on. *ak
On a below zero day the throttle on my 1999 audi a6 quattro was fully engaged after lifting off the pedal. Car was stopped only killing the engine via the ignition. Vehicle was restarted and problem continued. After jostling the pedal and restarting vehicle was fine.
The throttle stuck on my '99 audi a6 2.8 quattro at 70 MPH on interstate I-65 in indianapolis, in. It took both feet on the brake to stop the vehicle and still almost hit someone in the rear (scary). I put the car in park, it red-lined and I turned off the ignition. When I restarted the car the throttle had reset. Fortunately my wife was not driving.
While accelerating from a stopped position vehicle accelerated more than the driver depressed the accelerator pedal. This occurred without warning, catching the driver off guard.
When the temperature drops below zero, the car accelerates even after you take your foot off the gas pedal. It happened several times last winter and again during this last cold spell in january. We were lucky to be able to get the car off the road and stopped. Downshifting and heavy braking almost didn't get it stopped. The car went to the shop again for a bandaid fix but I was told by the dealership that sometimes this particular car just does that. I was charged $130.00 for them to clean the throttle body and told that I should remove the air filter and clean the housing myself occasionally. This is absolutely unacceptable.
While driving gas pedal stuck at 61 MPH. Consumer had to pull out of the road, and turn off the engine.
Throttle sticks when driving in cool temperatures. When this occurs vehicle accelerates at a high speed. Vehicle has to be turned off to solve the problem.
Vehicle fully accelerated on it own, resulting in very high speeds in traffic and on downhill drive. Very difficult to stop vehicle when careening down steep hill toward an intersection. Reportedly can happen in cold weather at any time. Dangerous!!
The accelerator froze in full throttle position, the throttle body was cleaned, however the problem recurred.
Acceleration pedal stuck, causing loss of control. Please provide any additional information.
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