The other morning, I went to warm up my car. I get in turn the key and the car starts up really weak and dies out. So, I turn the key again and it statrs up normal but, I decide to give it a little gas to help maintain idle. This is when i noticed the gas padel wouldn't go down or move at all. So after a second I decide to hit it a little harder. And the gas pedal goes down, all the way down and wouldn't come back up. So now my throttle is stuck at WOT, making all sorts of nosie. The engine is reving up and down beacuse of the rev limiter. And I crwal down near the padels and grab the gas padel and, it doesn't want to come back up. So I force it and it comes up but, just sags back down. So the padel is all limp, and the engine is still reving as fast as it can, stuck at WOT still. So, I pop the hood but, theres a probelm with my hood so it take me a couople of seconds to pop the hood. Than I finally get under the hood and grab the throotle cabel and notice it's stuck so I move with my fingers and unstick it. Than the motor is running normal. So I get back in the car and lightly give it a litlle gas and notice it's doing the same thing. So I get back at the throttle cable and fix it. By this time i decide to leave the car running normaly and turn on the heat and direct it all towards the feet area and put it at 90 degress almost full blast. An dabout 10 minuets later I get back in my car and every thing is fine. But for some reason i decided to tack my sisters car into town. I was a little worried about it happening again, maybe while I was driving. So for now on I make sure the car is reallllllly warmed up before I leave.
I assume it was just a frozen throttle cable. The weather was pretty cold that night about 0 degress (central NY weather). I now alot of other people live in colder climiteates and was woundering if this has happened to any of them.
I assume it was just a frozen throttle cable. The weather was pretty cold that night about 0 degress (central NY weather). I now alot of other people live in colder climiteates and was woundering if this has happened to any of them.