David M

spoob man I’m glad I posted about my issue! Good luck getting all that crap out of there. At least air filters are cheap. Will the car run or no ?

Today, on my way to work, I noticed that even when my foot was off the gas that the car would continue to accelerate. However it was slow, and I saw that my cruise control wasn’t on, so I brushed it off. As I got closer to work, I came to a stoplight and noticed this unintentional acceleration getting worse. When I was driving into my parking space, the car abruptly , ON ITS OWN ,mind you, revved up to 6000 rpm . As fast as I could, I turned the car off. Later in the day, my cousin came to help me look into the problem. Two things we found, number one, there was a chip of wood stuck between the butterfly valve of the air intake on the engine manifold. ( where the Engine metal meets the plastic) We assumed that was the issue, as wood chip was actually allowing air to get into the system and rev the engine even without pressing on the gas pedal. The real question was how a piece of wood big enough got into that area. That’s where the second problem comes in , I noticed while putting the air filter back in place that before this whole situation I had never had the filter latched in correctly. There’s 2 notches on the bottom of the plastic cavity and you need to make sure the air filter is clicked into those before snapping on the clips at the top. I hope this information helps anyone with a similar problem. I believe the wood chip got in because that air filter was not correctly connected.