I don't have slush mats, and it stayed in the increased throttle position for maybe 3 minutes. What made it interesting and probably saved our bacon was that sometime during the trip of overshooting the two track and tearing up the surrounding flora and fauna the tranny was bumped out of Drive, by I guess the passenger, while jumping over rotten logs and coming to rest against a short height rock ledge just before that really big open, rock infested downhill of the ridge we were on. All I could see was daylight in front of me so I put it in reverse and got out of there. After about a minute it started slowly returning to a more normal rpm, but after it had returned to a normal idle, if I applied throttle it would very slowly come back off. Made planning a return trip down the mountain interesting.
I'd say about 10 seconds to return to an idle position on the way back for the first 15 miles. Had the flashing thunderbolt indication the whole time, even after shutting down the first time to try to figure out what was up and check for damage under the rig.
It just stratched up the skids some, took some paint off my new Rock Lizz slider on the drivers side, and I had to kick some rotten log parts out of the front end. My front plastic wasn't pretty before, but it's still all in the correct amount of attached pieces.
They had all kinds of fun codes, engine overspeed, excessive brake usage, throttle control system problem, etc.
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