Pontiac Sunfire, multiple failures, out of control
02-04-2004, 07:18 AM
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Seems like a load of bull to me. The one scenerio I can think of is that the cruisecontrol malfunctioned and she overheated/glazed her brakes which caused her to belive that the brakes had failed to. Not sure about the ignition unless there is some kind of lock that prevents the key from being removed when the car is in gear. BTW, I bet an examination of the car will reveal no problems at all.
02-04-2004, 08:47 AM
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Originally posted by steve c
Another point to ponder.
If the car was in fact stuck wide open at WOT you would think that 150 miles of banging off the rev limiter (which more than likely uses a fuel-cutoff scenario to achieve it's purposes) would cause the motor to go ... POP.
The only possible scenario I can think of is that the cruise control was somehow stuck on and malfunctioning, meanwhile the dimwit behind the whee rendered the brakes ineffective by never using them fully in the first few minutes of trying to slow down and was too stupid to realize she could just turn the car off or take it out of gear.
Another point to ponder.
If the car was in fact stuck wide open at WOT you would think that 150 miles of banging off the rev limiter (which more than likely uses a fuel-cutoff scenario to achieve it's purposes) would cause the motor to go ... POP.
The only possible scenario I can think of is that the cruise control was somehow stuck on and malfunctioning, meanwhile the dimwit behind the whee rendered the brakes ineffective by never using them fully in the first few minutes of trying to slow down and was too stupid to realize she could just turn the car off or take it out of gear.
As for the cruise control, that's a possibility. I've had some cruise control problems that are really fishy with my car. However, a shift into neutral would disengage the cruise. I use that method a lot when I need to slow down without using the brakes to disengage the cruise.
Sounds like the girl is just dumb, because most of those systems are mechanical, and not electrical, thus making a system wide failure unlikely.
Maybe she should go play PowerBall.
02-04-2004, 09:10 AM
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What happened? Easy, same thing that happened in all the cases of "sudden acceleration" a few years back. She had her foot to the floor on the accelerator, thought she had it on the brake and totally freaked out. Mind just quit working (assuming that it had worked at some point).
Finally got stopped, blamed it on the car. I would be willing to bet a bunch of steve c's money that a subsequent examination of the car would reveal no problems.
Finally got stopped, blamed it on the car. I would be willing to bet a bunch of steve c's money that a subsequent examination of the car would reveal no problems.
02-04-2004, 03:58 PM
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I would be willing to bet a bunch of steve c's money that a subsequent examination of the car would reveal no problems.
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