Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer

One problem related to car accelerates on its own has been reported for the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 07/19/2007

The contact owns a 1998 Mercury Mountaineer. While driving 35 mph, the vehicle suddenly accelerated to 90 mph. The contact had to place his foot behind the accelerator pedal and pull it up in order to stop the vehicle. He pulled the vehicle over and was still on the side of the road during the time of this complaint. The current and failure mileages were 117,000.

Other Vehicle Speed Control related problems of the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer

Cruise Control problems	12
Vehicle Speed Control problems	8
Accelerator Pedal problems	5
Speed Control Cable problems	4
Speed Control Linkage problems	4
Accelerator Stuck problems	3
Car Throttle Sticking problems	2
Car Accelerates On Its Own problems	1
Car Throttle Stuck problems	1

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