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Subject:Re: Throttle Stuck Wide Open Leaving Me Stranded in Boise Idaho
From:Mike Collum
Date:Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:04:41 -0500

Mike Collum wrote:
> Christopher Gronski wrote:
>> I started my van after stopping at the Wal-Mart at W Overland and
>> Millwaukee
>> in Boise Idaho and the throttlle stays wide openbouncing off the redline.
>
> Turn off or disable your cruise control.

My logic for saying "Cruise control" is ... we don't normally give any
throttle when starting the engine ... certainly not full throttle.  It
wasn't shut off at full throttle, either.  But, when the engine was
started and it, seemingly with a mind of it's own, went to full throttle
... well, only a cruise control system can do that.

Mike