docmusolf

took your foot off the gas even when appling the brakes the car would not relaease the gas pedal. I had to shift into nuetral at stop sign and lights. Then the idle was at 2k when driving I could not get it to go below 1500 rpm. It warmed up over 40 miles and then it behaved. did not like this. It did this once before about 300 miles before mile transmission failed. are the two related or is a issue of it being frozen?

BongoCruiser

or your floor mat is interfering.

docmusolf

nope no problem there I checked. Also have the rubber winter mats in that snap in place

HZach

I remember having the same issue with my '91 V8 when it was really cold out. Would get stuck in high idle everytime it would get below 0F. Try putting a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator.

dimitristx

Now, these cars were tested in Germany and other severe weather places, right?

escapA8

I had to tap the accelerator a couple of times. This was after 15 minutes of driving. (35mph, 45 mph, 65 mph speed zones)

escapA8

That was the first thing I checked, but nope. Using no wintermats yet.

docmusolf

(-)15 - (-)20 last night (-)4 when I left for work

dimitristx

"Officer, no it wasn't me. It's the darn Audi that gets a stuck pedal at <0oF!!"

Adrian410225

97 A8 w 135k mi. I was driving back home the speed will not reduce even the accelerator pedal was off and RPM just going up. Seems tranny was shifting radically too. I came to stop sign and tranny down shifted itself while depressing the acc pedal.
Finally,I stopped the car and put the gear in nutral, the rpm when sky rocketing I had to shut the car off. Started again and it was ideling in fluctuation....
This is scary. What could possibly affecting this symptom??
My tranny was replaced at 109k and tune up(plugs and fuel filter) done.