NHTSA Complaint #10482360 — 2003 FORD TAURUS

3 OCCURRENCES OF THROTTLE STICKING OPEN WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE WHEN EITHER PASSING OR MERGING ONTO EXPRESS-WAY. THE FIRST OCCURRENCE WAS WHEN PASSING A VEHICLE ON A ROAD SHORTLY AFTER A FULL STOP GOING ABOUT 35-45 MPH THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE EVEN WHEN PUMPING THE BREAKS. THE 2ND TIME WAS NOT UNTIL ABOUT 6-8 MONTHS LATER WHILE ACCELERATING RATHER QUICKLY TO MERGE SAFELY INTO TRAFFIC ON AN EXPRESSWAY AND THE CAR CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE. SLOWLY AT FIRST AND THEN AFTER GETTING OFF AT NEXT EXIT I BARELY WAS ABLE TO APPLY THE BREAKS TO PULL OVER. I WAS ABLE TO SHUT IT DOWN AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES ATTEMPTED TO START CAR AND THE ACCELERATOR RACED SO I IMMEDIATELY SHUT IT DOWN AGAIN. AFTER WAITING 10 MIN. OR SO I WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE CAR AND IT PERFORMED LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. I WAS IN AN AREA OF DETROIT THAT I WAS NOT GOING TO STAY THERE UNLESS I HAD TO SO I AGAIN DROVE MAKING SURE I SLOWLY ACCELERATED UNTIL GETTING UP TO EXPRESSWAY SPEED. THE 3RD OCCURRENCE HAPPENED IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THE 1ST ONE HAPPENED. I THINK MY RESPONSE WAS DIFFERENT THIS TIME IN THAT I DID NOT ATTEMPT TO PUMP THE ACCELERATOR TO TRY AND UNSTICK. IF MEMORY SERVES ME I WENT INTO A COAST MODE UNTIL I SAW THE TACK COME DOWN TO A NORMAL RPM SPEED. AFTER THE 2ND OCCURRENCE I REMOVED THE FLOOR MAT FROM THE DRIVERS SIDE, SO I KNOW THAT AFTER IT HAPPENED THE 3RD TIME IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT THE RESULT OF A JAMMED FLOOR MAT. THE WEATHER ON ALL 3 OCCASIONS WAS NOT WET. THE 2ND AND 3RD HAPPENED DURING THIS PAST SUMMER. NO REPAIRS HAVE BEEN MADE ALTHOUGH WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THIS LOOKED AT BEFORE WINTER. *TR