My wife had a scary incident happen yesterday when leaving the house in her Mercedes GLK. She backed out of the garage as normal and then put the car into drive and started to drive down our alley. Halfway down the alley the car started accelerating to high revs and she said the brake pedal felt like pressing on a brick and she couldn't get the car to slow down. She managed to turn out of the alley (luckily no pedestrians or other cars coming!) only for the car to keep accelerating faster. At this point she was able to throw the car into neutral before turning off the engine and pulling over to the curb. We were very lucky as she had both kids in the back and quick thinking ended up not hitting something.
We've had the car towed to the dealership but they can't seem to find anything wrong and no diagnostic reading. My wife is deathly afraid that if they can't find anything this is going to happen again while she's driving and she might not be so lucky this time.
Has anyone else heard of this happening before to a MB or any other type of car? Any thoughts on what I can check out that the dealership might have missed? Any help is appreciated before I start driving the car for a bit to see if it happens again.