throttles up with out accelerating

1999 MERCURY TRACER
154,000 MILES
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BINKY
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1999 Mercury Traser sometimes throttles up to very high RPM and must turn off & restart to get to operating idle has done this twice this week
Nov 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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FIXITMR
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maybe it wants to fly? this is houston, go with throttle up! so no CEL to help us out?
Nov 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM
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