I have had this happen to me as well. 1980 F100 with a 302 and c4. I had worked on the choke and had removed it. I didnt see a piece of the linkage hanging down. I floored it to get some wheel spin at a stop sign and it got stuck at or near WOT. It was raining and I was going into a tight low speed s cruve. I threw it in neutral and when the tach hit about 6500, I turned off the motor.

If this ever happens to you, hit neutral and if the key wont turn off, let the motor go. Better than having all of the damages to property and health.

 

for 1 thing...the new F-150 doesn't have mechanical throttles anymore. so that mechanical failure is bs.

2nd, if you hit the brakes, your truck will stop. the 5.4 is not powerful enough to overpower the brakes. try doing a brakestand. it takes ALOT OF THROTTLE to do a burnout with the brakes applied

3rd, as everyone has stated, you can easily cut the ignition and/or shift to neutral

4th...um, well the truck weighs 6000 lbs (my Screw does anyways). it ain't no speed demon. I can floor it and still have plenty of time to react to almost anything. that whole story is b.s. from someone who did something stupid and is trying to get a scapegoat.

 

Even though there is no throttle cable, the throttle is still a mechanical device. There is an actuator motor that moves the throttle plate and if something shorted, the motor "could" move to full open but that would still make no difference because like stated.....brakes would stop it regardless of how much power it had. The front brakes would stop the truck and the rears would spin. No way in hell it would get to a high rate of speed while pressing the brakes.

 

Because it was reported on the internet, it must be true. Do not dare question it.

 

Moved to GENERAL.

 

yah i believe this 100%

 

While it would be scary, I have lost brakes before coming up to a highway with heavy traffic and cars traveling at over 60 mph (the speed limit is 60, but most drive over that).

As soon as the brake pedal went to the floor panic did set in, but I still had enough composer to stick it in neutral and hit the park brake which was not properly adjusted so did little to slow it down. So I opted to take the ditch and look for a soft tree.....
Instead I found an incline that I was able to climb then roll back down uncontroallably till it came to rest back in the ditch I had hopped previosuly.

In the situation that is described when he says it sped across the parking lot, I am invisioning a large parking lot, so I might would have utilized that to cut the wheel and started cutting doughnuts until I could figure out what to do.

 

The original story is completely consistent with hitting the gas instead of the brake. He says he hit the brake, but as stated many times before, you can't over power the brakes with the motor.

I think accidently mashing the gas pedal to the floor happens alot when drivers panic. They continue to panic further when the motor revs and the brakes 'fail'.

 

B.S. on this story. I hope the guy has to pay a shat load for his stupidity.

 

Yeah I'm throwin' in the BS flag too. Throw it in park if you have to... don't just keep "trying the brakes." Bunch of shenanigans....

 

Had a 86 v6 mustang their is a spring on the bottom of the gas petal that brook in half and got stuck in the carpet I didn't think took two sec to turn key off

 

The throttle on my Capri got stuck at WOT one winter. Left the driveway, took it from reverse to drive, hit the ags and it just took off. Hit the brakes and threw it in neutral and shut it off. Turned out there was ice built up on the throttle linkage.

Whoever originally posted this story f'ed up somewhere and like was posted probably floored the gas. I dont think there is any vehicle that will go that fast with the brakes on. The fronts will stop it while the back tires roast, when you should be shutting it off or putting it in neutral and let the engine blow.

 

absolutely. My engine does NOT overpower my brakes. Not even close...they hold it very firm in place.

 

This happened to me once, the engine surged rather. The engine surged while slowing to a stop at a stoplight. I damn near hit the guy in front of me but I was paying attention. Never again did it happen. Maybe a corrupt tune. I had a passenger in my truck who felt it, made her jump. It happened immediately after releasing the gas, hasnt happened since.

I don't think he could be making this up if he hit several series of vehicles in a row, especially in a parking lot if I read it correctly.

 

Its how it happened that is BS, Im sure he did cause alot of damage but it was his own stupidity that caused it.