Today, in my 2004 coupe with 75K miles, I experienced the first real glitch since I’ve owned it (which is a couple years and about 10K miles). It’s been raining heavily for a few days and unfortunately it has to sit outside. Today the sun was shining and I took it out for a drive. Prior to driving, I did inspect the normal points where water might get in and all were dry. I drove about 4 miles and came to a stop, when I went to go it was as if the engine had died. It was still running at idle and I was able to get off the road. When pushing on the accelerator it had no effect but then I realized if I held the pedal down it would slowly come up. So I was able to get it back home by not letting the rpms drop (it’s a 6 speed). In my driveway I shut it off, waited a minute and restarted it. No issue getting it started, the accelerator was controlling the rpms normally. I did a few back and forth runs in the driveway and it was all normal. I went ahead and took off to run my errands and drove it for more than an hour with no more issues.

When this first happened I thought maybe the accelerator pedal assembly could be bad (having just read a few posts here on that subject) but when it cured itself with a restart I figure it’s probably not that. I do plan on pulling the RCM and resoldering the joints just for good measure. Any other suggestions on what I could look at? I had the fuel filter replaced last year, less than 2000 miles ago. The good news is it’s not stuck on the side of the road, it seems there has been a few of those lately.

Thanks for any input.