PaulW

All of them occured when it was 10 F or so, two in Chicago and one in St. Louis.

<a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/a8/msgs/18496.phtml">Here's the link</a>

I sure sounds like something that has to do with the extreme cold (like a bunch of us A8 owner's have a fuel leak at less than 15 MPH in the engine comparment) and it will go away after the extreme cold goes away.

Would be interesting to see what it is though.....

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no.sympathy strikes again. But I'm with ya this time.

Jimmy Pribble

You said you saw that the gas pedal was stuck. This isn't unheard of. So, with the car OFF, stick your head down there and see if you can see why it is sticking. It might be something obvious like the floor mat, a piece of errant carpeting, or the pedal may be broken. Look all along the pedal lever. There might be some interference up under the dash. Did you recently have an aftermarket stereo installed? Press in the pedal and see if you can recreate the problem. If you can't find anything wrong, the problem might be on the engine side. At that point, you might want to consult your dealer. If you aren't confident that you fixed or can fix the problem (know your abilities), you will want to tow your car to the dealer anyway.

Good luck,

Steve's 3.2 TT/Avant

Vigor, and the supposed culprit was a throttle wire that was "tighter than operational limits [how's that for a phrase?] so that it didn't have enough play in it to disengage correctly." That was the official Acura diagnosis. The problem never resurfaced after Acura looked at it the first time.

To their credit, the Acura dealership did go over the car with a fine-tooth comb, even though they of course couldn't duplicate the problem in their shop. Trying to convince the service writer that I wasn't a two-footed driver, on the other hand, took several minutes: I had to go on a test drive and demonstrate for him how I applied the brake!

Dan_L

I wear a 14 and never hit both at once

Potomac-Greg

Sounds like gummy linkage. Still suggest you get it towed.

QCRAZY

I cannot afford shoes...always fixing my A6. I don't hit both either!!

Jim Selders

Could be throttle body icing too.

A6Q99.5

This is my 1st post, have no intention of stirring up bad Audi memory. It was +6F outside.
Driving for ~15 minutes, car started to accelerate as if cruise was engaged. I pulled off the highway, changed to TIP 3rd, pull into gas station, stop, shift to neutral, rev went to 4k before I shut it off. Jabbing the padel have no effect.
Start again, revs @2.5k, shut off, fill up, 4 minutes later, start again, idle returned to normal. Hasn't happen since.

I had a Volvo 850 behaving similarly at one time. A bad thermostat cutting out to zero, ECU think it's cold and started to rev the engine up. But in that case, it would rev up and eventually stall the engine.

A6 2.8 48K drives normally in this cold spell til last night.