PurplePeopleEater
May-17th-2007, 07:31 AM
Well, my car is in the dealership for the THIRD time because no one can seem to find the problem...but this time they put me in an '07 Camry. Last time I had a Yaris so I'm really moving up in the world! :)
My car accelerates and decelerates uncontrollably all the time now, mostly minor, sometimes severe. It only used to be while I was in traffic. Now it's everywhere so it feels as if it's getting worse. I'm seriously going to get myself in an accident one of these days.... :tear:
This is what I am experiencing: You're in the car and you want to impress someone out on the street so you rev your engine up and down and up and down, etc. My car does that by itself and I'm not trying to impress anybody. It doesn't matter if I'm in neutral, first or second. Usually it accelerates and decelerates at 2-3,000 miles. Yesterday it went up to almost 4,000. Getting rid of the car is not an option either. I still have three years left to pay it off. I really don't want to get rid of it anyway, I love it.
Last week they replaced the throttle body because the sensor in it was giving the main computer mixed signals. Two clutch switches were replaced in November, thinking that that would solve it. I asked my new friend Dan, the mechanic if he checked the tranny and he didn't yet because he felt that that wasn't the problem and the way that he explained it made sense, I just don't remember how he explained it so I cant' repeat it. Someone else that I had talked to (a friend who is a mechanic, not anyone at the dealership) said that it might be full of anti freeze or something??
I have less than 2,000 miles left under my warranty and considering my car was just in the shop a week ago, I'm taking full advantage of my dealership and the warranty (and free rental) until they fix it.
My car accelerates and decelerates uncontrollably all the time now, mostly minor, sometimes severe. It only used to be while I was in traffic. Now it's everywhere so it feels as if it's getting worse. I'm seriously going to get myself in an accident one of these days.... :tear:
This is what I am experiencing: You're in the car and you want to impress someone out on the street so you rev your engine up and down and up and down, etc. My car does that by itself and I'm not trying to impress anybody. It doesn't matter if I'm in neutral, first or second. Usually it accelerates and decelerates at 2-3,000 miles. Yesterday it went up to almost 4,000. Getting rid of the car is not an option either. I still have three years left to pay it off. I really don't want to get rid of it anyway, I love it.
Last week they replaced the throttle body because the sensor in it was giving the main computer mixed signals. Two clutch switches were replaced in November, thinking that that would solve it. I asked my new friend Dan, the mechanic if he checked the tranny and he didn't yet because he felt that that wasn't the problem and the way that he explained it made sense, I just don't remember how he explained it so I cant' repeat it. Someone else that I had talked to (a friend who is a mechanic, not anyone at the dealership) said that it might be full of anti freeze or something??
I have less than 2,000 miles left under my warranty and considering my car was just in the shop a week ago, I'm taking full advantage of my dealership and the warranty (and free rental) until they fix it.