Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2004 Jaguar XJ

One problem related to car accelerates on its own has been reported for the 2004 Jaguar XJ. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 08/06/2010

Unintended acceleration when braking. Description of incident August 5, 2010 I did not drive the car, it was parked in front of my apartment. August 6, 2010 at 12:15pm I drove from my apartment to the pebble beach lodge parking lot (approx. 5 miles and 10 minutes). At 4:15pm and after a long lunch at the lodge I drove â¼ mile to my bank parking lot near the lodge. I went to the bank and the pebble beach market nearby. At 5pm I drove home, I was driving on an asphalt paved road in pebble beach at approximately 30 to 35 mph and lightly applied the brake (only) around a curve and the car lurched forward (eg, vigorously accelerated). I took my foot off the brakes, I was startled and let the car coast for a few feet, there was no traffic on pebble beach drive at that time. I resumed the drive home, and I was very much alert and aware and very careful, I applied the brakes several times without incident and stopped at two stop signs before I approached the third stop sign approximately five minutes later, as I neared a 4 way stop intersection, I slowly I applied the brakes a normal distance before the intersection, but as I was attempting to stop the car before the intersection, the car lurch forward and I instantly pressed the brake pedal (only, not the gas pedal) and moved the shifter into the park position and turned the key off. I was about five feet farther into the intersection than I planned. The car on my left did not move into the intersection as he observed the event (and gave me his phone #), he heard my wheels screech (for a split second) and maybe my front wheels made noise too, but I only recall hearing the rear wheels.


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