Accelerator stuck @ 135mph

NickXX · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:41

He probably put it into neutral, rolled the car up to the roundabout used his brakes and hit a kerb at 20mph for dramatic effect. :rolleyes:

Felix Da Housecat · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:48

What a joker

If that was me id use the brakes to get most of the speed off, then if the car changes down the gears, which i guess would be lower than 60mph then i'd turn the key to stop the engine.

But as a fellow poster has said 135 out of a 318 auto.....yeah right pull the other one.

TBH, i bet he got flashed so he needed a good reason to be speeding.

Muppet.

Firestar_3x · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:49

What a muppet, the brakes only failed cause he kept them on the keep the car at 70, what did he expect them to last forever!

He should have pulled to the hard sholder turned the engine off and let the car slow itself down while using the brakes every so oftern.

He even looks like a gormless tool.

Amps · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:50

I have had this happen to me twice to a lesser extent.

1st time was the day after i got my 307 2.0L overtaking a car doing about 60 and the accelerator got stuck flat on the floor under the car mat. i managed to unhook it after a min or 2 but that was scary. I instantly stuck the car into 3rd braked and got it into second where it red lined while I sorted the mat.

I wouldnt like to be stuck like that for any amount of time.

PMKeates · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:56

custom1 said:
But as a fellow poster has said 135 out of a 318 auto.....yeah right pull the other one..

A 318 auto is capable enough of nearly seeing an indicated 135mph, which is what I assume the story is referring to.

chopchop · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:04

hm what a retard, you dont loose brakes and you dont loose steering by turning the engine off.
i guess i have no control over my car when i go 120mph with no powersteering :rolleyes:

brakes wouldnt be hard to use either because the servo only looses vacumn after pressing the pedal down more than a couple of times. after that yes u have to stamp on the brakes, but its no worse than driving an old mini!!

Phantom · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:05

Freefaller said:
Of course I'm sure everybody here would have reacted perfectly and wouldn't have been scared....

yep.

i hope the police fine him for using his phone while driving

emetic · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:08

If your doing 130mph ish and your not sure if your steering lock is going to come on if you turn the ignition off would you try it ?

MrSix · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:08

Phantom said:
yep.

i hope the police fine him for using his phone while driving

"Mr Nicolle was in constant contact with the police on a hands-free phone."

Boom - there's that one shot down in flames. Like his car I guess...

Felix Da Housecat · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:12

PMKeates said:
A 318 auto is capable enough of nearly seeing an indicated 135mph, which is what I assume the story is referring to.

Parkers has the 318 down for 124mph so it's not far off, but i still think something is fishy about his story, maybe he wanted a new car F.O.C from BMW.

chopchop · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:13

BeaumonT said:
If your doing 130mph ish and your not sure if your steering lock is going to come on if you turn the ignition off would you try it ?

on a straight part of the motorway? HELL YES
and if you really are stupid enough to think that then you can always turn the car off and then turn the ignition back to pos 1 or even 2. but with being a retard they probably wouldnt do that either.

D_Brasted · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:17

Has anyone tried turning off an automatic car while the car's in drive? That was my first thought when I read the article, but surely the police would have told him to do that... I find it hard to believe that a possible loss of steering was the only reason he didn't. :confused:

Gentwee · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:23

chopchop said:
hm what a retard, you dont loose brakes and you dont loose steering by turning the engine off.
i guess i have no control over my car when i go 120mph with no powersteering

Here's the thing, your car is designed to have no power stearing, his isn't

Without PAS on my car the stearing is a lot heavier and harder than on my old non-PAS car

PMKeates · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:24

Gentwee said:
Here's the thing, your car is designed to have no power stearing, his isn't

Without PAS on my car the stearing is a lot heavier and harder than on my old non-PAS car

The weight of steering isn't really an issue at high speed.

NickXX · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:35

PMKeates said:
A 318 auto is capable enough of nearly seeing an indicated 135mph, which is what I assume the story is referring to.

Erm, no it's not. Not an R-reg e36.

laissez-faire · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:37

NickXX said:
Erm, no it's not. Not an R-reg e36.

If it is listed at 124mph then going downhill with the wind behind it and only one person in the car then it could probably get to 135 indicated I think. My Golf diesel is only meant to hit 112mph, it is 8 years old and has hit 125 indicated on a 'private test track'.

Enfield · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:38

NickXX said:
What an absolute attention seeking muppet. A 318 auto won't hit 130mph anyway.

He could have braked to 70, then in the hard shoulder flicked into neutral or killed the engine.

UNbelievable.

Indicated 135mph, he said he couldn't get it into neutral because the gears were jammed and he couldn't kill the engine because it has PAS.

I suppose you could have controlled it at those speeds with no brakes, yeah? :rolleyes:

NickXX · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:38

BeaumonT said:
If your doing 130mph ish and your not sure if your steering lock is going to come on if you turn the ignition off would you try it ?

The steering lock would come on, and the brakes wouldn't be very effective at all.

However, surely he could have just pulled into the hard shoulder, killed the ignition, put it in neutral, then started it up again.

Hell he could have just put it in neutral.

What a numpty.

NickXX · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:43

Enfield said:
Indicated 135mph, he said he couldn't get it into neutral because the gears were jammed and he couldn't kill the engine because it has PAS.

I suppose you could have controlled it at those speeds with no brakes, yeah?

Ok I retract my earlier statement, *maybe* it did see an indicated 135.

You would have enough boost left in the brakes to stop after killing the engine. However, like I said, why couldn't he have killed the engine, engaged neutral and then started up again?

And yeah right the gears were jammed, failure of the autobox and accelerator at the same time? Hmm..

Enfield · 11 Mar 2006 at 14:44

NickXX said:
Ok I retract my earlier statement, *maybe* it did see an indicated 135.

You would have enough boost left in the brakes to stop after killing the engine. However, like I said, why couldn't he have killed the engine, engaged neutral and then started up again?

And yeah right the gears were jammed, failure of the autobox and accelerator at the same time? Hmm..

How can he put it into neutral if it were jammed mate?