stuck throttle, lol

Thought that I'd share this link.... and it you own a WRX get the recalls fixed, lol


http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...ge=1&pp=25

To Quote Queen....

"Another One Bites the Dust"
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I "know" a guy that works in a body shop and he said "I can buff that out." [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_spin.gif[/img]
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Musta been that wing.
My cousin did that with a 57 chevy. Only he was trying to out run the law and turned down a road at too high a speed and slide into the house on the corner. Didn't do a lot of damage to the house luckily since it had a ways to go in the dirt and grass before it got to the house. Of course the law got him...again.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

The hoodlum driving this truck was the one driving the 57.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]
Lookin like the Waltons.



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Love that truck. I'm gaging when they refer to the little blue POS as a "performance car".

When we were dating, my now wife had a Pinto. She was headed home one day on the freeway in Fort Worth - in 5:00 traffic. Just as she hit the old downtown overhead, the throttle stuck. She popped it out of gear (auto), it overspeeded and she turned off the key amd coasted to the side. The side of the bridge was just wide enough to hold the car. Called me from a pay phone and I walked out to this POS car. 1/4 mile to the middle of the bridge, 40' over Lancaster Ave and cars ripping by. I had to climb over the car and slide into the window Duke's-o-Hazzard style. Got the hood open - there was a little flat head screw from the choke laying under the throttle. Moved the throttle and it fell right out. (Wouldn't do it for her - sho stomped the pedal several times.) That car was possessed and didn't like me at all. That screw had 10,000 opportunities to fall off the motor, yet it circled the carb and parked under the throttle. Refered to the car as "Christine" after that. And got rid of it real quick.

Anyway, she knew enough to get it stopped. That guy's lucky he didn't kill someone. WMD indeed.
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argh, how fast this guy was driving? dont think it was the 30 speed limit.....

I do like Subaru. sweet little cars
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see all pictures there:

http://www.trunkmonkey.com/gallery/Panache

that must the dumbest driver ever on earth.
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Our little Renault we had in Spain did that to us one time. But the throttle wasn't really stuck. The cable broke and instead of being normal it just went wide open. Put it in neutral and shut the key off. Little sucker was screaming.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] Good thing it was a gutless wonder. But then we were on a straight stretch on our way to the beach at 8am. Get there early, leave at noon when everyone else was just getting there.
We also carried an extra set of points with us all the time. It would eat them and die on us so we'd have to slap a new set in every 3 months or so. That might seem normal but I'm used to filing them and moving on.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] For a go cart it got us around so guess I can't complain.

Well good riddance, maybe that fart-pipe toting llama will grow a brain after teh experience. On one occasion in my '67 I ghetto-rigged a throttle return spring and headed to the parts store to get a real spring...

On the way my ghetto spring fell off (oops), and when I hit the gas to accelerate from a light the Gal took off on me! I turned that sucker off so fast... It took me maybe 1/10th of a second to turn the ignition off. Yeah, I coulda been a moron like this rice-boy here, but no, common sense kicked right in and I turned it off before rear-ending the guy in front of me.

I just drove the rest of the way to the parts store with one foot under the gas pedal and one foot above it. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

I read a few pages, and all those guys kept talking about how turning the key off woulda locked the steering. I could be wrong, but dont cars turn off at the first click backwards, and only lock the steering if you go all the way for exactly that reason?

The guy was a retard, hes lucky no one was hurt. If that was my house, I woulda hurt him.
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