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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005039041 | Incident Date: Sep, 14 2005 |
| Consumer's City: PACIFIC | Consumer's State: MO |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN | Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: GRAND AM | Model Year: 2004 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Vehicle speed control |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1G2NE52F74C | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Sep, 15 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Sep, 10 2004 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Beginning in december of 2004 the vehicle while driving through a heavy rainfall had the accelerator stick and the car had to be pulled to the side of the road and turned off. at various other times between dec 04 and 3/28/05 the vehicle displayed eratic speed control. on 3/28/05 vehicle was serviced at bommarito south for this same issue, during that service visit, they couldn't replicate the issue. on 4/08/05, vehicle was serviced at dealer for the same issue again and the throttle body and accelerator cable were replaced. this apparently also did not solve the problem. on september 9, 2005 with approximately 9524 miles on the vehicle, while slowing down in 5th gear and leveling my speed out at approximately 30 mph, i released the gas pedal and engaged the clutch in order to downshift. when i did this, the rpm level on the vehicle climbed to approximately 4000 rpm and remained at that level. in order to get it to come down from the high rpm i had to pump my gas pedal several times. on 9/12/2005 the vehicle was towed by gm to the bommarito pontiac south dealer again, this time the dealer stated that they couldn't replicate the problem but that the vehicle was suppose to do this.. on september 15th 2005 at approximately 20:00 hrs i was driving the vehicle through a heavy downpour on interstate 44 near valley park, mo. the traffic ahead was slowing down as you could not see very far ahead due to the extremely heavy rainfall. i removed my foot from the accelorator, however the car still continued as if my foot was still on the gas pedal. i applied the brakes, but it did not have an effect. i then applied the clutch so that the engine would not continue to make the car go foward, the tachometer then raised to over 5,000 rpm's i tried pumping the gas pedal to make it come down but it did not have any effect. i almost had an accident becuase of this. to avoid engine damage from the high rpm's i had to turn the engine off and pull over to the side of the interstate. |
