While braking car will accelerate. Have to brake hard and but into neutral. Engine raced and I had to turn car off. This has happened 5 times. Took to dealer service, they could not find anything wrong.
2003 Pontiac Vibe acceleration complaints
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Car was purchased day before. While driving on mar 1st and coming to stop light with brakes applied, car attempted to accelerate. Only hard braking prevented crash. Two hours later with wife in car while braking for stopped car, engine roared violently, all dashboard lights flashed, smoke poured out of back of car from exhaust and rear tires spinning only hard braking, putting car in park and turning off engine prevented a collision. Car was trying to accelerate rapidly with brakes on.
During normal driving, when you remove foot from accelerator for gradual slow-down car will sometimes have slight to moderate burst of speed. Vehicle has been returned for service check and pontiac dealer, before even looking at car, stated, the type of problem described would be very hard to find. I suggested the automatic transmission or the fuel injections, but of course they could not find problem. This problem could cause serious problems or accidents, but no one from dealer seems to be concerned.
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