Car Accelerates On Its Own Problems of Chevrolet Camaro

Water shorted the app circuits and caused the throttle to activate with out driver input. Water is a potential cause for sudden unintended acceleration in vehicles equipped with potentiometer type app sensor's through extensive research between August 2019 and September 2020, I have determined that a water intrusion problem into the instrument panel (ip) to body harness connector, which carries the app sensor signals to the ecm/pcm has the potential to cause sudden unintended acceleration in many of the 2005-2018 gm product line. Water can enter the connector through body leaks and may cause an increase in voltage on app 1 and app 2. On some vehicles this can also cause a malfunction in the bpp/brake switch status circuit. As a result this malfunction can mistakenly appear as a pedal misapplication in the edr report from the sdm. This finding applies to many other vehicle using a potentiometer type app sensor but the research was done specifically on gm vehicles. I have also determined water intrusion into the connector 109 on the full size truck line has the possibility to cause false activation of the app circuit. Using water I have confirmed that water can cause the voltage increase on app circuit 1 and app circuit 2 and not enter reduced power mode, it all comes down to surface area exposed and sodium content in the water as to the final results. As these vehicles become older the likely hood of these events occurring increases. Vehicles near salt water or where salt is used on the roads are more likely to fail with higher app %. Because of the known water leak into the connector's containing app wires and verification that water can cause false activation of the app circuits. It is my conclusion in rare events this water could cause false activation of both app signal in many of the 2005-2018 gm vehicles. This vehicle was used for confirmation.

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I was pulling in to my car port coming to a stop with my foot on the brake and the car unexpectedly lunged forward the brakes could not had it and my foot was on only the brake. 2 weeks later I was pulling into a parking spot with my foot on the brake coming to a stop and the car lunged forward unexpectedly ,luckily no one was on the side walk . I had to take the car in for the ignition key recall and I told the dealership to look at it for this problem ,when I went to pickup the car the dealership told me they ran a diagnostic system test and found nothing ,I showed the tech the post on this site id number10638610 ,as that post has the same problem ,and it stated at the end of the post that there was 2 recalls for that VIN number car pertaining to what lead/caused that accident ,to show the tech that gm has a fix for it on recall and the tech stated that was only for that VIN number on recall and that I would have to notify gm corperate on this issue . So I notified gm corperate through email on this matter and now waiting response ,this is an unintended acceleration problem.

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Approaching a three-way intersection with a stop sign with intent to stop and turn right. Vehicle suddenly accelerated without accelerator input from driver. Driver was unable to brake/stop vehicle or effectively control steering/path of travel. Vehicle, according to state patrol, gains an estimated speed of 65 mph through intersection and collides with embankment/mountain hillside. At this time, car became airborne to an estimated height of 28' and landed on front driver side of vehicle first. Front airbags failed to deploy upon impact. Driver sustained a serious tbi(traumatic brain injury) & concussion due to blunt force trauma to the head due to lack of airbag deployment. Owner still continues to suffer from side effects of the tbi injury and wants to notify the public that life-threatening issues exist with this vehicle. To date, gm has issued two major recalls on this vehicle pertaining to what lead/caused the accident.

10/26/2012 - pulling into parking space at low speed. Car suddenly accelerated. I assumed that somehow it was my fault. Impacted a second vehicle. 02/23/2015 - exact same thing. Pulling into parking space at low speed. Car suddenly accelerated. I was able to slam on the brakes and prevent a collision. I googled "camaro unintended acceleration" and found a video clip of another person appearing to have the same problem. . Read more...

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Tl- the contact owns a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro. The contact stated that the driver was traveling over a two mile stretch when the vehicle suddenly and rapidly accelerated without warning. The vehicle accelerated to 110 mph and proceeded to travel through a four-way stop sign. The driver then engaged the emergency brake in an attempt to stop the unintended acceleration and the rear of the vehicle became erratically uncontrollable. The vehicle then traveled over a curb and crashed into the side of a residence. The air bags failed to deploy. The driver was killed in the impact. The vehicle was not inspected for the cause of the failure. A police report was not filed. The failure and the current mileage was 22,000. The VIN was not available. Kmj.