My cruise control is a sometimes thing, when it decides to take control, stabbing the brake pedal turns it off. Try that next time you get the runaway. If that does return the go pedal to normal, it is the cruise control who has decided it knows better than you how fast to go.
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, BStromsoe <bstromsoe@...> wrote:
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> If it is the cruise control (and it may well not be), take it from a fellow who disconnected his in both 300d's - I don't miss the cruise control at all.
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> brian from la verne, ca
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> From: roderick_macdonell <roderick_macdonell@...>
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:12 AM
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: 190D - Engine revvs crazily
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> Yes, cruise control, under the theory that it sticks when the revs get a little high.
> Do you have any suggestions to the revving issue or are you questioning the usefulness of the theory?
> Thanks
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> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Alan Boucher <alstheone@> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/16/2011 7:24 PM, roderick_macdonell wrote:
> > >
> > > My 1986 190D (standard transmission) has taken, the last few days, to
> > > suddenly revving at very high RPMs when I am driving along at speeds
> > > between 40 and 60 mph.
> > > It happens out of the blue - and the accelerator compresses toward the
> > > floor and the engine races. I turn off the engine and coast for a few
> > > seconds, and then turn the engine back on again, and its okay for a
> > > few minutes - and then a few minutes later it starts again.
> > > Mechanic disconnected the power steering rod today to see if that will
> > > possibly solve the problem.
> > > Any suggestions please?
> > > Tks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > cruise control?
> >
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