Sorry to hear bro, I hope you can get your L fixed or get another.

 

hey I know how u feel 2 yrs ago i wrecked my first L too, a month later i had another one.... still have the salvage sitting in the driveway, a project for the future. glad you could walk away from it though, that is the most important thing

Russ

 

He said he hit the gas SLIGHTLY.......he didn't say he slammed the pedal to the floor.

He said it was LIKE the engine was stuck at WOT.

These trucks produce plenty of power at even 1/4 throttle to fish tale on gravel. He never said he was leaving a pool hall **** faced and floored it going around the corner. Give the guy a break. His truck is f'd up the last thing he needs is the peanut gallery speculating on why it happened and pointing fingers. It's done and happened. Water under the bridge. Thank god no one died.

 

I know exactly what you mean. I have had it happen to me in two different trucks. Once in my old F150 and once in my Lightning. Both times I was lucky enough to have been in situations where I had enough time to get past the intitial WTF. I was mainly bringing up the idea of shutting off the engine for those that have it happen going down the track.

Good luck on getting it all worked out.

Rocks

 

You must have missed the follow up post. "I may have hit the gas a little too hard". Regardless. If he didn't want responses why post in the forum. I call them as I see them. My glasses just aren't as rosey as yours. Part of my previous life was spent as a firefighter/paramedic. I have been to way too many accidents that did not end up as lucky as this one. Sticky throttle seem to be an epidemic that spans every make of vehicle involved in a questionable accident.

 

You may be calling it like you see it, but I can tell you for sure that it wasn't hitting the gas a little too hard that threw that truck into the tree. It hit the tree with way too much force to be just from a hitting the gas a little too hard. Everyone, at one point or another, hits the gas too hard on a road that has way too much gravel and sand, and ends up spinning the rear tires, by accident. The truck hit the tree just too hard from a slight tap on the gas, it was stuck. Also, I was never issued any tickets by the state troopers that were on the scene. Everyone, including the passenger, agreed that it was caused by a sticky throttle, and not me slamming the gas pedal to the floor.

 

Don't worry about what people who weren't even there think. We're glad everyone was OK. Hope everything works out for you.

 

Not only is speculation about the cause the normally expected response, but 282 is also an active participant in the postmortem. If someone has a theory that allocates responsibility on 282, then too f*cking bad.

I guess that finger pointing is okay, so long as those fingers aren't pointed at 282.

Leaving "pool hall." Riding with buddy. Fishtailing in high-powered, modified truck. I am not saying that did or did not cause the accident, but if those facts don't raise the possibility of driver error in your mind, then you need to put a rubber band on your head and snap out of it.

 

[QUOTE= Sticky throttle seem to be an epidemic that spans every make of vehicle involved in a questionable accident.[/QUOTE]

My comment doesn't pertain to this fellow. I don't know the individual in this post and I wasn't there. But my neighbour is a police officer and its amazing the stories that he hears. The best ones always come from people doing excessive speeding well over 100mph or who have accidents when no one else is arround. The ones that keep coming up are sudden acceleration (remember Audi in the 80's), cruise control was stuck (virtually impossible), throttle stuck, I left the oven on at home, I thought I was having a heart attack, car next to me was pointing a gun... and so on.

I really wish that poeple had the ***** to admit when they F#%##%-up. The cops and the insurance don't believe them and all they do is demonstrate a lack of integrity.

When integrity is lost, you lose allot more than the cost of a vehicle.

 

To be honest with all of you I could personally care less what anybody thinks because me the passenger, the officers, and the witnesses are the only ones who know what happened. The witnesses and the passenger will all vouch for what happened to me.

I know the question of driver integrity does come into play, but realize that it is not always the cause of the accident.

I would admit fault if it was my fault, and the cops were uncertain of my story until all three of the witnesses came foward and said the same thing that I had said. They all stated that the engine kept accelerating, even right after it had impacted the tree.

If you don't want to believe me that is fine, but don't tell me what did and did not happen that night.

 

Absolutely! My response made it clear that I could not say either way. I was only pointing out that there was no reason to pull any punches here just because you might have thin skin.

You clearly do not. You have handled the comments here like a champ.

 

Thank you

 

Just glad no one was seriously injured here

 

i plead the fifth

 

Glad no one was seriously hurt, and I'm really gald the cops and witnesses came through for you. I wanted to chime in on this one because I had a close call with sticking throttle a few years back. I had a 95 Impala SS, that had alot of mods done to it. It ran 13.9 in the 1/4. Anyways I set the cruise at 70 Mph going down I-83. Started to go up an incline and the cruise gave the throttle around quarter throttle to compensate. The roadway leveled off and I noticed I was accelerating past 70. A few seconds later I was at 80, then 90. I hit the brakes (to disengage the cruise) and the engine was still at quarter throttle. I wasn't slowing down. Hit the brakes harder, no luck. So here I am, accelerating and can't slow down. It was too fast to pull onto the bumpy shoulder of the road, and I couldn't simply throw it into neutral (3:73 grears and a TH350 trans) cause I didn't want to blow the LT1. So now I'm scared out of my mind. Luckly there wasn't much traffic, so I got into the right lane, put hazard lights on, and shut off the engine. I put it into neutral and used the brakes lightly, then was able to get speed slow enough to pull off to the shoulder.
Throttle sticking is not an un-heard of thing. I experienced it and it is scary stuff. Don't let anyone try to blame you when you know what happened and the witnesses/cops know what happened. Those people who think you were messed up must have never had a sticking throttle before...When that happens you don't have much control over what happens next, you the best you can do to make it out alive.... Just my .02
Hope your truck can be fixed, cause the L is getting hard to find.