MongooseGA

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I'll say that this thread was written for a more, erm, 'raunchy' forum (OLT knows what I'm talking about) so there's a bit more language than CL censors allow

*This is worth the read. I'm putting my e-neck on the line here.*

Wow, tonight scared the **** out of me.

I came home from school early because this is exams week. I took advantage of the gorgeous weather we're having here and decided to rid my car's exterior of winter's wrath. Wash, clay, Pinnacle ASMR, AIO, 4* UPP. Gorgeous. Tires got VRT. Looks magnificent; even, dare I say it, spectacular.

I wiped down my dash, vacuumed the seats/ mats, put the mats back in. conditioned the leather, etc... Nice and clean inside.

Then I take her for my usual after-cleaning run around the neighborhood. Uh-****ing-Oh.

I start the car and she's idling at 1,500. Normally she stays at about 6-700. I think, hmm... I'll drive slow and see if I can figure something out. The car seems quicker from a start from normal, due to the higher revs. I can't figure out why it's revving so high. I come to a slow stop and I can feel the motor revving. ****. I continue on my way, and come to a stop sign. I hold the brakes hard, and the car lunges forward.

****.

So I come home and back into my driveway, thinking how much Lexus is going to charge me to fix whatever this problem is. I did nothing to the car that would have affected it... Never got the motor wet or did anything to the brakes. As I'm backing in, I hold the brakes hard again. The car tries to jump backwards.

After carefully getting the car back in it's hole, I kill the motor. Start it again and it's still got a 1,500 RPM idle. I turned off the A/C, and it dropped to like 1,400 RPM- still double the norm.

Put the car in park, kill it, and get ready to get out. As I'm getting out, I noticed that I laid my driver's floor mat over my gas pedal, but under the brake. No ****ing wonder the brakes are making the car lunge; they're pulling the mat over the gas. The mat is pushing the pedal down some, plus more when I went to accelerate. I should have noticed a different feel the in gas pedal, but this was the first time I had driven in my Birkenstocks and attributed the different feel to the wide sandal and different fit from my tennis shoes.

Total self ownage

Cliffs: I feel like a total dumbass.

Nomis

LOL - that's hilarious. At least you're man enough to admit it. Nice to know this stuff happens to others as well.

MongooseGA

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Eh, if you can't laugh at yourself, you can't expect anyone else to laugh with you.

So you've done this too, eh?

nysupraman

i admit that happening to me too, damn floormats! before i finished reading i was gonna say the exact same thing

MongooseGA

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Are we sure this should be in the Engine/Transmission section?

ConSynX

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lol, awesome

i wasn't expecting that

MongooseGA

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Well, at the time it wasn't awesome. I could feel my checking account being drained when I thought about parts and labor to fix this old girl.

I'll just have to be more careful when I put my mats back in

JspecSC3

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Ahahah!

So I was driving to school this beautiful morining and I come to a stop light. As I brake I realize that my revs are getting higher. When I come to a complete stop I too realize that it has gone up to 1500rpm. When I got home I checked it and it was my carpet over the pedal too!

VJ RC51

Been there done that.. floormats came out 5mins later to never be put in the car again