The accelerator sticks and this is very dangerous

- Columbia , TN, USA

As of Monday Oct 23rd 2017. My 2005 Mercury Mariner started stuttering, hesitating, losing power, spitting, suffering, how every you would put it. When you push on the gas. It did this off an on this day. Later this day it felt like someone pressed on the brakes and then floored the gas at the same time. When this happened the anti-theft light flashed at the same time it done this. It does it with in about 10 seconds then the light goes out and goes back to spitting an sputtering and the radio volume goes down and back up off an on as this is happening. It continued doing all of that every so often everyday from Oct 23rd - Oct 31st. On Oct 31st 2017 I was coming home, it was around 9:30 P.M. speed limit was 55 I was running right at 60 coming over hiwassee bridge and my hole vehicle shut down had no light inside or out wasn't running, couldn't steer, tried to turn hazard lights on to let cars coming both ways I was there but nothing would work. My boy friend said I'm going to put it in neutral he reached over to see if it would crank nothing I started getting nervous so I just put it back in drive and after a couple seconds it was running again but had no lights at all inside or out just could drive. So I was trying to make it to the end of the bridge with no lights so I could pull off but it started acting going crazy flashing on off like it was possessed or something. It did that for about a minute the the head lights came on and stayed on just the head lights only still had no other lights no tail, brake, or inside lights, just head lights. So I tried to make it on home. It continued to do the spitting an sputtering thing and the battery light flashed on then off about 3 times in 5 miles my turn was coming up to the left so I just tired the blinker hoping it will work, no luck. After I made the left turn got going the hazard lights came on. 7 miles all lights on.

- Dayton, TN, USA

The car is parked in my office parking lot. The car alarm goes off. I can see out the window there is no one around the car. I use the remote to turn it off. Happens intermittently, a few times a day. I even took the keys out of my pocket and just have them sitting on my desk...it still happens....update 9/15/15 updated 12/13/2017

- Orlando, FL, USA