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Thanks for your reply.

I spoke to him this morning. It's a 2005 Focus sedan (petrol). It had been towed to a mechanic/transmission specialist who could find nothing wrong with it, so they picked the car up. His mum drove it away and in a few hundred metres it was playing up. My friend then drove it and he had the same problem in a short distance, with the car seeming like it's stuck in first or second gear with no power. They called the RACV; RACV bloke calls tow truck. RACV bloke took it for short drive; seems like he might have put the boot into it as he drove away; he found no problem.

Since then his mum has driven it on a couple of 50 km round trips with no problem. My friend was wondering if a floor mat might be creeping up and getting in the way of the accelerator pedal so he is going to remove the mat.

He will be wondering if the problem is going to pop up again.