Floor Mat Stuck Gas Pedal

A gas pedal getting stuck rarely happens but when it does it can be extremely dangerous.

Floor mat stuck gas pedal. I m no truck genius and i still haven t manged to get my pedal stuck under the mat. Threw the challenger mats in the front again as i was cleaning the old factory ones. Toyota recalls 3 8 million cars for floor mats linked to stuck gas pedals. Not to worry though there is a strategy to counter this scary situation.

The two way toyota is recalling 3 8 million vehicles in the car maker s biggest u s. Recall for dealers to replace mats. Jump to latest follow 1 20 of 22 posts. Joined sep 20 2008 597 posts.

Sep 25 2020 at 11 59 pm 7. The toyota recall crisis started with a single horrifying car crash in southern california last august. Even after issuing recalls to address problematic floor mats that in some cases pinned down accelerators the company hid a flawed gas pedal design that it knew did the same thing according to. What might cause a gas pedal to become stuck.

Discussion starter 1 may 26 2011. I have not had any issues with my mat interfering with the gas pedal. Usually a broken or faulty gas pedal is due to mechanical malfunctions. Gas pedal stuck under oem floor mat.

1 of 2 go to page. This is the comparison of a good floor mat and a defective one to see if you have one of the affected mats. And this week after two separate recalls covering 7 5 million vehicles toyota was forced. The second recall on january 21 2010 was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caused by floor mat incursion.

Back in 2009 toyota recalled a total of 3 8 million vehicles due to the potential of the floor mat interfering and causing the accelerator pedal to become stuck in the open position.