I started my car to warm it up and then I went to scrape snow and ice from my windows. I also helped a young woman remove the ice from her car. I got into my car, didn’t notice anything unusual, put the car in drive, and then my car accelerated like crazy. The car lunged forward a bit and the rear wheel was pouring out smoke from an awesome smoky burnout. Thank goodness you have to push the brake pedal to put the car in gear and that I kept my foot firmly pushed on the brake. I took it out of gear and put it into park as quickly as I could, but I was stunned and confused by what had had just happened. I got out of the car and just looked at it like it was crazy possessed beast of some kind.

I still don’t know what happened. I did not have my foot on the gas. I had my foot on the brakes, so I don’t know why the engine surged like that. I wondered if the choke was stuck or something. The temperature dropped almost 30 degrees while I was at work and it had been raining hard in the morning. I wondered if maybe some moisture freezing inside the motor area could have had something to do with it. It didn’t happen again the next two times I started my car.

That experience reminded me of how powerful and dangerous an automobile really is. I think we take it for granted, when everything goes smoothly, but these cars are powerful machines that can cause real damage if they get out of control.

Does anyone have any ideas about what happened to me and if it will happen again?

By the way, my car is a 1995 E320.

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I just couldn't give up on my 1995 E320.

I think it might be like always going back to that same bad relationship with an ex girlfriend.
You feel you love them too much, or you are just too stupid to know any better.



Flickr slideshow of my 1995 E320
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24145497@N06/sets/72157616572140057/