Unintended Acceleration

[TruBlu]

On 2/27/2014 at 3:57 PM, packsail said:

I pulled out of a parking lot on to a city street and pressed the gas pedal a little, planning to get up to about 25 mph because there was a red light a block away. The truck responded as if I had floored the pedal. I took my foot off of the pedal and the truck kept accelerating at full throttle. I hit the brakes thinking the cruise control had gone nuts, BUT hitting the brakes would NOT turn it off. It kept accelerating with the tach over 5000. I shifted to Neutral and the engine speed dropped down to idle.

 

 

 

The light turned Green and I shifted back to Drive and the engine immediately started accelerating again at full throttle. I put it back in Neutral, moved over to the shoulder and turned the key off. Then I started the engine again and the problem disappeared. I'm 72; if my wife had been driving by herself, she probably would have had a serious wreck. The truck is a 2014 Silverado, bought 4 weeks ago, 6 cylinder work truck. Anybody else had this experience?