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jVex

jVex

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Well, I do like to push my car to the limit. I was driving and peeled out of a neighborhood and when I took my foot off the gas the car made a weird noise and kept accelerating put my foot to the brake and pulled the e-brake and the RPM's were moving like crazy so I turned it off. Turned it back on and now it's fine.

Any idea's on what the hell happened?!

99 Grand AM COUPE
 


I'm no expert but if i had to take a guess I would say its something in the pcm,is your check engine light on? if so is it staying on or flashing on and off? I would take the car somewhere and get it scanned for dtc's (diagnostic trouble codes) and go from there.
 
Wow, not to take lightly but two things come to mind... First, do you drive a Toyota?? LOL no that's not it..

Second, lets see how many movie buffs are out there... "Push in the cluth and let the SOB blow, it's over Cole".. :th_laugh-lol2:

Ok back to reality... I had a throttle cable stick before and did something like that.. When you took your foot off the gas, did you feel the pedal come up with your foot? I know you were under a lot of stress at the time, but thought I'd ask. If not, then yeah what Country said if your SES/CEL light is on check it.
 


cause when i see a person trying to race their grand am all i see is a tard thats going to dump buttt loads of money into it when they destroy it sell it get a gtp
 
So, cool, the car's been made fun of. Super helpful.

I'd have to agree that we're looking at a throttlebody that's been stuck open. There could be an issue with the plate, the throttle cable... check on the mechanism for it on the ide of the tb, make sure the cable runs clean without obstruction. Screw around with it in park, see what turns up.
 


There's a realy easy solution to your problem...

Stop driving like a douchebag. What are in neigborhoods? Kids. Do you know how much time in prison you will do when you hit a child and get charged with motor vehicle homocide?
 
I had similar problem on my GTP-- turned out that the throttle plate got wedged against the cross bar in my maf. I had been doing some cleaning under the hood and must of pushed the maf too for onto the t/b. Didn't realize there was very little clearence between the parts.
 
Grand AM won't have a maf in the TB, at least not on a 3.1/3100.

I'd say it's likely time for a TB inspection like the guys have mentioned. Maybe a cleaning. Check the cables if if you notice the RPM raising on their own at stoplights, check the TPS. When bad, they can surge/make the engine rev up.
 
Explicit_Spade said:
There's a realy easy solution to your problem...

Stop driving like a douchebag. What are in neigborhoods? Kids. Do you know how much time in prison you will do when you hit a child and get charged with motor vehicle homocide?
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I'm 17, I'm supposed to drive like a "douchebag".
 


Also took it to my guy for a small inspection, he say's he cannot find a single thing wrong.
 
jVex said:
I'm 17, I'm supposed to drive like a "douchebag".
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Being young and dumb is not an excuse when you know you are young and being dumb. Just like being drunk is not an excuse to act like an asshole.

"I'm drunk, I can get away with acting like an asshole, so I will".
"I'm 17 and can get away with driving like an asshole, so I will".
 
I am 17 and I don't drive like a dbag so that is not a excuse you can use. Learn how to drive correctly when you are on the road or you are going to get yourself into some big trouble whether it be hitting someone, hitting something, getting tickets, ect... As far as your problem goes, check what everyone else has been recommending that you check and if it doesn't fix your problem take it to another place and have them look it over
 
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