2003 Pontiac Grand AM Vehicle speed control Problems

“Accelerator pedal sticking. When the weather would warm up the pedal would stick holding the throttle open. There was a recall on this but my vehicle was 900 cars out of the VIN number break point for this recall. The recall needs to be expanded on this failure. The parts that the dealer replaced were the same parts that were on the recall vehicles. My vehicle is a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am with a v6 engine in it.”

“I bought the car a few months ago, but haven't been driving it very much as it was going to be for my daughter, who does not have a license yet. I was driving down the road and it kept accelerating. I did not even have my foot on the accelerator. It got up to 60 MPH. I put on the brakes very hard and switched it into neutral when I got it slowed down, then into park. I pumped the gas and it went down to idle speed. Just a few minutes before that I noticed I had to press really hard on the brake to get it to stay stopped at a stop light. …”

“I had 2 kids in the car,the accelerator pedal stuck,car kept speeding up.. I was using both feet on brake & er brake as well!! I was swerving in & out of traffic,running red lights & praying for our lives,we got up to 85 miles per hour in a 35mph zone!! The car was revving out of control & black smoke was coming out from under the hood! I managed to slam it into park & we all jumped out & ran,very frightening & almost ended in a collision. The intake manifold gasket cracked at 1yr old and 10,000 miles,the tires needed resealing at 5000 miles. Ridiculous!!”

“On hot days after my vehicle sits in the sun, the gas pedal sticks. On one day my car was in park running at 7000 RPM's. I called two different dealerships that told me this was not possible and my car was not covered in the recall for this exact problem. The third dealership finally acknowledged I was not safe in this vehicle and the service manager stayed late to wait for me (with a mechanic) to look at my car. Once they looked at my car it was determined that this was the problem.”

“This didn't involve anything tragic. I have a 2003 Pontiac grandam and it was having problems with leaking coolant and I have found out that my intake manifold gasket is needing to be replaced and also learned from the mechanic that I took it to that this model of car is infamous for having that problem and his does several repairs of the same type of car for the same problems every month and I think this should be addressed by the GM manufacturers because they put a faulty part on this type of car and it is going bad and could subsequently cause the head gaskets to blow on the car if it is…”