Good evening forum,
My apologies if I am posting this in the wrong section but I would be grateful for some advice.
A little background first... I purchased my ex mobility Grand Scenic (10) 1.5 dCi Dyn last thursday from a independent dealer. 16,000 miles, FSH and no obvious (to a noob anyway) mechanical faults on either of my test drives.
Aside from short term clicking/typewriter after parking the car it has been a pleasure to drive. Until today.
Upon merging onto a dual carriageway, I changed gear from 3rd to 4th and the engine went into max revs for about 10 secs but returned to normal and I was able to finish my journey (nursery run) with no further problems and put it down to my inexperience of the car and diesel engines.
After picking up my kid we left the sleepy village roads and turned onto the main B road back to the dual carriageway. After I changed up from 2nd to 3rd gear the max revving kicked in again. I quickly changed up to 4th and the revving calmed down somewhat but the accelerator pedal was fully depressed (my foot was nowhere near it) and the car continued to gain speed at an alarming rate. I had the brakes fully pushed in to avoid ramming into a truck in front but this only seemed to limit the acceleration, not stop it. When I took my foot off the brake the car accelerated at high revs. After some frantic banging on the accelerator pedal and changing gears up and down the pedal eventually returned to its normal position and the acceleration returned to normal. It was quite a scary 20 seconds or so, especially with my two wee ones in the back. I arrived home with no further problems.
Does anyone have any experience of this?
I have searched online and this forum but have been unable to find a problem similar to this one except for a short thread about the pedal possibly being stuck by the carpet which is definitely not what happened in my case.
Today was the first time I drove the car without putting the keycard into the slot (had it in my pocket). Would this have anything to do with it?
Cruise control and speed limiters were off.
I would be very thankful for any similar problems experienced by GS users and how you went about fixing it.
I will be contacting the dealer tomorrow and will no doubt be told to bring the car in but it's a 30 mile drive on the motorway and I'm a little apprehensive about it.
Sorry for the long winded first post.
Thank you for your time.
My apologies if I am posting this in the wrong section but I would be grateful for some advice.
A little background first... I purchased my ex mobility Grand Scenic (10) 1.5 dCi Dyn last thursday from a independent dealer. 16,000 miles, FSH and no obvious (to a noob anyway) mechanical faults on either of my test drives.
Aside from short term clicking/typewriter after parking the car it has been a pleasure to drive. Until today.
Upon merging onto a dual carriageway, I changed gear from 3rd to 4th and the engine went into max revs for about 10 secs but returned to normal and I was able to finish my journey (nursery run) with no further problems and put it down to my inexperience of the car and diesel engines.
After picking up my kid we left the sleepy village roads and turned onto the main B road back to the dual carriageway. After I changed up from 2nd to 3rd gear the max revving kicked in again. I quickly changed up to 4th and the revving calmed down somewhat but the accelerator pedal was fully depressed (my foot was nowhere near it) and the car continued to gain speed at an alarming rate. I had the brakes fully pushed in to avoid ramming into a truck in front but this only seemed to limit the acceleration, not stop it. When I took my foot off the brake the car accelerated at high revs. After some frantic banging on the accelerator pedal and changing gears up and down the pedal eventually returned to its normal position and the acceleration returned to normal. It was quite a scary 20 seconds or so, especially with my two wee ones in the back. I arrived home with no further problems.
Does anyone have any experience of this?
I have searched online and this forum but have been unable to find a problem similar to this one except for a short thread about the pedal possibly being stuck by the carpet which is definitely not what happened in my case.
Today was the first time I drove the car without putting the keycard into the slot (had it in my pocket). Would this have anything to do with it?
Cruise control and speed limiters were off.
I would be very thankful for any similar problems experienced by GS users and how you went about fixing it.
I will be contacting the dealer tomorrow and will no doubt be told to bring the car in but it's a 30 mile drive on the motorway and I'm a little apprehensive about it.
Sorry for the long winded first post.
Thank you for your time.