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As some of you may have experienced problems like acceleration lag after anything resembling a sharp turn and something that can be described as being popped into nuetral while driving, have you had anything else weird/unsual happen that you might attribute to the trac/ecu problem?
The reason I ask is because I have been having quite a few things happen that have scared the living daylights out of me, that could have caused accidents, some I have been able to side step around, like the car refusing to accelerate after any sharp turn (not even speeding, mind you) so I just take turns slow and wait until I have plenty of space between oncoming cars, or avoid the more notorius turns entirely, but there have a few things that seem to have no rhyme or reason and would happen out of nowhere.
Things like; I was driving behind my friend, on a straight road, and we are coming up on a stop sign, so I reduce my speed, applying the brakes to slow down to a smooth stop, and when I eased up on the brake pedal even a little bit, the car jerked forward as if I had stepped on the gas, and, although I have big feet, I know I was nowhere near my gas pedal. I press the brake pedal back down and the car seems to slow down again, and I'm at a complete stop. It's a stop sign controlled intersection, so my buddy in front of me continues after stopping, and I off the brake to pull up to the white line, as soon as I take my foot off the brake pedal, the car lurched forward like it was a stick shift in the hands of an inexperienced driver, it totally catches me by surprise and I almost rear end my friend, so I stand on the brake and the car shudders like it wants to speed up, like you're about to stall out in a stickshift and the car gets into gear and goes... This was the first time it happened, and it didn't happen again that night, so I passed it off as a fluke. Then a few weeks later, as I was slowing down to a stop to make a left hand turn into my friends neighborhood, the car does this again right as I ease off the brake to make the turn the car lurches and I almost hit the corner curb which has a concrete gate. The street that I am turning into has a decent sized dip, so of course I'm not going to plow through it, and I almost hit the curb/gate but I managed to stand on the brake and pull left enough to barely get away with nothing more than a scraped front (the black mudflap looking thing infront of the front wheels), but that scared the living daylights out of me. This is before trac/ecu fixes being available, and I know how dealerships have no clue about it, and didn't take it to the dealer demanding a fix that I knew they didn't have for a problem that they probably didn't know about, and I had already reported a few problems that I was unable to reproduce, and this was something I cannot reproduce, so I decided not to waste my time or theirs and risk me being the boy who cried wolf. This problem happened to me at night both times.
Then there are times when I accelerate, like on a freeway on ramp, and the car would just act like it was in neutral, rev up and all of a sudden jump and push me back into my seat, and go way faster than I was trying to accelerate to (10-20mph or so over) which hasn't really put me in any danger because all I have to do is eshift into 4th or give it a little brake action to slow down a little and keep with the flow of traffic. Sometimes I'd be at a light and from a complete stop I'd start off at a decent rate of acceleration, not engine blaring or pedal to the metal, and then after 30mph the engine would roar, then squat and act like I had floored it, I have been able to keep this in check by taking my foot off the gas as I near the speed limit or the flow of traffic, and the car would behave normally a few seconds later, provided that I didn't touch the gas.
Yesterday was the worst. I had just made a right turn and was driving on Victoria, which is a straight two lane road for awhile that goes into a mildly windy road that
The reason I ask is because I have been having quite a few things happen that have scared the living daylights out of me, that could have caused accidents, some I have been able to side step around, like the car refusing to accelerate after any sharp turn (not even speeding, mind you) so I just take turns slow and wait until I have plenty of space between oncoming cars, or avoid the more notorius turns entirely, but there have a few things that seem to have no rhyme or reason and would happen out of nowhere.
Things like; I was driving behind my friend, on a straight road, and we are coming up on a stop sign, so I reduce my speed, applying the brakes to slow down to a smooth stop, and when I eased up on the brake pedal even a little bit, the car jerked forward as if I had stepped on the gas, and, although I have big feet, I know I was nowhere near my gas pedal. I press the brake pedal back down and the car seems to slow down again, and I'm at a complete stop. It's a stop sign controlled intersection, so my buddy in front of me continues after stopping, and I off the brake to pull up to the white line, as soon as I take my foot off the brake pedal, the car lurched forward like it was a stick shift in the hands of an inexperienced driver, it totally catches me by surprise and I almost rear end my friend, so I stand on the brake and the car shudders like it wants to speed up, like you're about to stall out in a stickshift and the car gets into gear and goes... This was the first time it happened, and it didn't happen again that night, so I passed it off as a fluke. Then a few weeks later, as I was slowing down to a stop to make a left hand turn into my friends neighborhood, the car does this again right as I ease off the brake to make the turn the car lurches and I almost hit the corner curb which has a concrete gate. The street that I am turning into has a decent sized dip, so of course I'm not going to plow through it, and I almost hit the curb/gate but I managed to stand on the brake and pull left enough to barely get away with nothing more than a scraped front (the black mudflap looking thing infront of the front wheels), but that scared the living daylights out of me. This is before trac/ecu fixes being available, and I know how dealerships have no clue about it, and didn't take it to the dealer demanding a fix that I knew they didn't have for a problem that they probably didn't know about, and I had already reported a few problems that I was unable to reproduce, and this was something I cannot reproduce, so I decided not to waste my time or theirs and risk me being the boy who cried wolf. This problem happened to me at night both times.
Then there are times when I accelerate, like on a freeway on ramp, and the car would just act like it was in neutral, rev up and all of a sudden jump and push me back into my seat, and go way faster than I was trying to accelerate to (10-20mph or so over) which hasn't really put me in any danger because all I have to do is eshift into 4th or give it a little brake action to slow down a little and keep with the flow of traffic. Sometimes I'd be at a light and from a complete stop I'd start off at a decent rate of acceleration, not engine blaring or pedal to the metal, and then after 30mph the engine would roar, then squat and act like I had floored it, I have been able to keep this in check by taking my foot off the gas as I near the speed limit or the flow of traffic, and the car would behave normally a few seconds later, provided that I didn't touch the gas.
Yesterday was the worst. I had just made a right turn and was driving on Victoria, which is a straight two lane road for awhile that goes into a mildly windy road that
