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11th February 2012, 18:46 | #1 |
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A warning.
I've copied and pasted this from the tech section about what happened today, please be aware while it's below freezing...
WARNING ! OK. Guys thanks for this thread, as I've had that exact problem today, and although I dealt with it easily enough, it would not have been good if someone else was driving, unaware of what was happening. Started car, temp showing minus 3 degrees. After a couple of miles the temp went down to -5 and then quickly to -8, and we were on a Motorway and set Cruise to which may or may not have been something over 70 leptons.Nice quiet road, no dramas until a car pulled out in the distance so I touched the brakes and the Cruise lights duly went out. Still all fine, until I realised that the car has stayed at the speed and is now driving it self! No amount of pedal playing would free it, but using brakes would slow the car, but not seemingly the revs! As it was a Motorway, and felt I had a bit of control, I carried on until it became a duel carriageway and was able to pull over in a layby.Slowing to a halt, with my foot hard on the brakes, it was obvious that the car was still trying to pull forward,I put it in neutral( it's an Auto) and the revs were stuck at 4000rpm.With my foot hard still on teh brake, I put it in park,and turned teh ignition off. Restarted a couple of times and it was still stuck at 4000rpm, and no amount of blipping the throttle would do it. Flipped the bonnet, and played with the throttle manually, and after a couple of attempts it freed itself, ideld a bit lumpy for a few seconds and then fine.Continued the journey not going over 2500 revs and all fine, as was the same journey on the way back, again keeping the revs at sensible levels. Looking at the number of occurences,there seems to be a link between anything colder than -5 degrees below and the throttle sticking? Please all of you, be very careful, it's not a pleasant experience
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11th February 2012, 18:53 | #2 |
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I'm sorry, but that is really hard work trying to read AND understand that. I've tried twice.
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V6 engines suffer from sticking throttles in cold weather beware...
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Most car handbooks discourage the use of cruise control in wintery or very wet conditions as it can be very dangerous, I find cruise very scary at the best of times & generally only use it for keeping at the right speed through long stretches of roadworks or where the speed limit is difficult to adhere to
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My cruise control works fine in all temperature ranges,never had a problem. Then again it is my right foot.
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Had this happen to me this morning! The current Mrs Camulus's Focus had a problem so I kindly offered to drive her to work (for that read "get out of bed you lazy *** and take me to work") and it was -12 and freezing fog. I'd only gone about 7 or 8 miles and was going down a long hill I noticed I wasn't slowing even though my foot wasn't on the loud pedal. Having read of this on the forum before I deduced a 'stuck' throttle (even though I'd previously cleaned and WD40'd it). I stopped and gave it 5 mins and everything was fine. Happened a couple of times more on the trip - seemed to be most noticeable if the throttle had been held in the same place for a while.
Anyway, got back and thoroughly cleaned the mechanism on the throttle body with carb cleaner and sprayed it all with 'motorcycle chain lubricant' (heavy duty waxy/greasy type of substance) and upon returning my beloved to the bosom of her family this evening had no problems even though the conditions were pretty much the same. Would be interested to know a definitive cause though.
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