Well i was going down my street which is a big hill, when all of a sudden my brake pedal locked up, my check engine, battery and another warning light came on, i couldn't stop it until i threw on the e-brake and then it slowly stopped, then i put it in park and checked my gas pedal and it was all locked up. I had to turn my car off and turn it on again to get it to go. It is an automatic so i dont think i stalled, and was going about 15-20 mph when it happened, thankfully noone was behind me, but i dont understand what happened, can someone help me figure this out?

 

Not to sound stupid but go back to the dealer ASAP

 

I'm confused.

When your brake pedal froze up, did it just drop to the floor? Or was it like stepping on a brick (meaning that it just didn't move)?

What was the road like (weather conditions, wet, snow, etc.)?

Did the car continue to run or did the engine stop?

That's a pretty good place to start.

-Alex

 

the pedal was like a brick, wouldnt budge, road was dry and clear, engine cut out,

 

There you go. For some reason your engine stalled. That almost never happens in an automatic and there may be something else wrong with the car. All of the symptoms you describe though can be attributed to a stall. Without a running engine your power brakes are nearly useless and won't feel like anything and all of those lights will come on.

If you have the time, bring it in to the dealership and tell them what happened. A stall under normal driving conditions isn't normal and you may have a problem with one of many systems, however, if the dealership can't duplicate the problem then there is little that they can do to fix it. At the moment though, I don't think you're in immediate danger.

-Alex

 

my closest guess is maybe my leg hit the shifter, cause i have seen it happen where the gear is shifted and it stalls, but thats for the input, gonna run it be th dealer tomorrow

oh and it was starting to flurry a little bit, maybe a little went into the intake and ino the engine, but that doesnt sound logical

 

Snow won't make your engine stall. Trust me.

You do need to get that car to the dealer with all possible alacrity. What bothers me the most about your scenario is that your brakes failed on you. Even with the engine shut off, the hydraulic accumulator should have had enough pressure to assist with stopping the car; that's how power braking systems are designed.

And when you take the car in for service, don't fall for the "we couldn't reproduce the problem, so we can't fix it" crap. Tell them to make sure they troubleshoot the entire system and find out what could have caused the engine to stall and the brakes to fail. Remember that this is your safety we're talking about, and the braking system is the most important safety equipment on your vehicle.

 

ok thanks for the input guys, i'll run her by the dealer after i take my sat's tomorrow, but it was just so odd and kinda scarey, i had to ask someone what happened, peace.

 

You guys may be over analyzing the problem of everything he said two fact stand out:

1-The car stalled, DEFINATELY

2- He was heading down hill on a steep incline.

How much gas did you have at the time ? I'm guessing you ran the car dry because the fuel ran to the opposite side of the tank from the fuel pump. Did it take a bit to restart once the car was level ? SOunds like the most obvious and simplest answer, I too have had cars stall on inclined planes thats all.

 

hmmmm there should be enough vacuum left in the booster to stop the car if the engine stalls

unless you compleatly lost all vacuum all together :? which that is i have no idea how in the world it managed to do that

 

it cant be the hill cause i travel up and down that hill every day, and never had a problem

and i had half a tank of gas

 

With all the lights coming on it sounds like it did just stall. It prolly won't ever do it again, just a freak thing. If there is a problem it might have thrown a code. Have it checked out just to be on the safe side though. It's also weird that you didn't get that one last brake pump before the vaccum was gone.

 

I had a Ford that did that all the time, one of the worst cars I ever owned. You'd let go of the gas to coast and the friggin motor would just stall out, then the darned thing would'nt want to start back up. No matter how many times that car was taken back they never found the problem.

I got rid of it ASAP and never bought another Ford.