Service electronic throttle control?

[14RamMan]

Just went into the garage to turn on my truck. When I pressed the ignition, my rpms spiked to a sustained 4000rpms. The EVIC said "service electronic throttle control". Never heard of this before. Im going to get it towed to the dealership to have them take a look at it. Frustrating as I had to pick up someone from the airport.

 

[cryption]

So I have a 2019 RAM classic with 4k on it. I was driving, had to slam on my brakes and then get on the gas quick. Throttle went to the floor and stayed there - and the truck kept accelerating. I was able to get off the road into a parking lot, and get it in Neutral. When I put it in neutral, the pedal went back to the normal position. When the accelerator stayed on the floor I got that light also.

I took the truck to the dealer and they said it was likely the aftermarket (Weathertech) floor mats getting stuck under the pedal. While I'm skeptical, all I can do it go with the dealer.

I'm really telling you this story to advise you to A. take it to the dealer and also keep in mind if the pedal gets stuck and it's accelerating - putting it in N seemed to help (at least with mine).

That error is often times caused by both pedals being pressed at once - like the floor mats in my case. Make sure your floor mats aren't stuck up under the accelerator.

 

[Pull Ya]

OP-- do you have a Pedal Commander?
Jay

 

[14RamMan]

I dropped it off at the dealer; there are several TSBs that they'll start with and go from there. Might be a few days, which suck as we had plans for playing in the Rockies this weekend, despite the incoming snow storm. I do have weather tech mats, but the pedal wasnt touching them.

I had a pedal commander last year, but ened up selling it. Wasnt worth the money to me.

 

[14RamMan]

Well, it was the weather tech mats after all!

Had to manually put the truck in neutral by removing a panel and pulling a strap on the lower left side of the dash. Fun fact, if you accidentally start the truck with this manual override in place, it wont shut off until you reset the override. 20-25 seconds of my truck high reving and nearly soiling myself until I figured that out.

They did about a dozen recalls while it was in there, and got charged $180 for an hour of diagnostics time. There was no charge on the tow either.

 

[Big Terry]

OP-- do you have a Pedal Commander?
Jay

My PC did not like my VHF ham radio antenna being fender mounted. Whenever I would key the mic on my radio, the PC reacted with the transmitted rf- and the higher the tx power on the radio, the higher the rpms would go.

Put the antenna on the roof and solved that issue.

 

[Pull Ya]

Strange how some things don't play very well together----LOL
Jay

 

[averageguy]

I've seen the floor mat under the pedal more than once over the years cause the gas to "stick". We had some new Western Stars at work and one driver kept complaining his truck had no power. The dealership,unable to solve the problem and since the trucks were new, has Detroit Diesel send an engineer with a lap top to ride along. Well, the truck says its at 70% throttle and the driver says he's standing on it which baffles the engineer. When they come back and tell our senior mechanic, he walks out in the yard, opens the door and stands there looking for a minute, then pulls out the mat and says go try that. Problem solved! In that case it was not letting the pedal go down all the way.