Near crash as Maserati Ghibli accelerates by its self…twice!
Discussion
First thank you for all taking time for your comments in what feels like a mine field!
To clarify points that I haven’t made clear!
• Car firstly went to Maranello Egham not Italy
• I was careful in reflecting what happened so it was not be being a dick
• I wanted to point out I had plenty of driving experience and with automatic transmission cars not that I was a good driver
• The roundabout in question is a route I take every day for past three years
• I approached roundabout and when seeing the right was clear that was when I tried to accelerate, there was no fast approach or hard braking and was literally a minute from work
• The momentum allowed the car to enter the roundabout junction/road
• I did not go over the roundabout and damage the car, the steering was working
• It happened twice in quick succession but after the second time it seemed all the warning lights, multi colours flashed up on face of speed dial but I could not get my phone out quick enough to take a shot, this what’s make me think its not driver error, once maybe but twice?
• The time lag before the acceleration kicked in seemed an age felt like over 5 seconds surely a performance car should not have this short of lag and throttle should have cut out if brake pressed hard and it definitely did not as I remember hitting the brake pedal hard and car was still trying to accelerate
• 2016 recall was blamed on faulty mats, mine had factory fitted mats
• Even if under 30 days the fault has to be confirmed before rejection so has to be a honest dealership or independent report, was it a fault that was fixed?
• I have fitted a Gopro aimed at dash, but becoming a bit of a hassle so have to pick my drives
• Surely it cannot be a one off
To clarify points that I haven’t made clear!
• Car firstly went to Maranello Egham not Italy
• I was careful in reflecting what happened so it was not be being a dick
• I wanted to point out I had plenty of driving experience and with automatic transmission cars not that I was a good driver
• The roundabout in question is a route I take every day for past three years
• I approached roundabout and when seeing the right was clear that was when I tried to accelerate, there was no fast approach or hard braking and was literally a minute from work
• The momentum allowed the car to enter the roundabout junction/road
• I did not go over the roundabout and damage the car, the steering was working
• It happened twice in quick succession but after the second time it seemed all the warning lights, multi colours flashed up on face of speed dial but I could not get my phone out quick enough to take a shot, this what’s make me think its not driver error, once maybe but twice?
• The time lag before the acceleration kicked in seemed an age felt like over 5 seconds surely a performance car should not have this short of lag and throttle should have cut out if brake pressed hard and it definitely did not as I remember hitting the brake pedal hard and car was still trying to accelerate
• 2016 recall was blamed on faulty mats, mine had factory fitted mats
• Even if under 30 days the fault has to be confirmed before rejection so has to be a honest dealership or independent report, was it a fault that was fixed?
• I have fitted a Gopro aimed at dash, but becoming a bit of a hassle so have to pick my drives
• Surely it cannot be a one off
hi pressing both pedals is the fault shown up, but in the incident both pedals were pressed when trying to get car under control the fault I believe happened before that and as that showed on car data Maserati are saying thats what it is...it did not show up the original fault or the flashing alert lights!
hi pressing both pedals is the fault shown up, but in the incident both pedals were pressed when trying to get car under control the fault I believe happened before that and as that showed on car data Maserati are saying thats what it is...it did not show up the original fault or the flashing alert lights!
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