Death by Floormatt

These people actually have time to call the 911 to say the accelerator is stuck and they are doing 120 down the road. Ok WTF is the 911 operator supposed to do for you? Can these people not use what's between their ears?

This actually happened to me once when I was selling my 88 GT mustang that probably had 450 horse power. Guy is test driving the car and I was in the passenger side. He floors it to see how it runs and after a few seconds I say ok buddy let off now. He says that its not him that the gas is stuck. Took me a half second to reach over and turn the key off to keep us from dying. Hmmm....slam the shit out of the brakes...take it out of gear....anything is better than dying[Bang]

I agree with you 100%. Shutting off the car and hitting the brakes would be my first and only choice. I wouldnt even call 911 at all unless I hit someone or ran them off the road or something.

What prompted the post if you dont mind me asking.

Probably the Toyota recall on floor mats.

I only call 911 when local fast food places are out of chicken.

I think there is recall on the Toyota Camry's for their floormats sticking causing the go pedal to get stuck.....correct me if I'm wrong.

Damn Sturtle beat me to it[Coffee]

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Originally Posted by Sturtle

I only call 911 when local fast food places are out of chicken.

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HA! I remember that video. Those people seemed genuinly distraught over the chicken.

It's more than the Camary, it's like half of the new car fleet. Toyota's biggest recall ever.

Oh. I only heard about the Camry. Can't they just take the floormats out and fix the problem?

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Originally Posted by opie011

Oh. I only heard about the Camry. Can't they just take the floormats out and fix the problem?

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What?

No. No, that would never work. Toyota's engineers say that the only way to fix a floormat causing a gas petal to stick is through a total recall and extensive mechanical efforts. They are engineers after all. Something simple and logical just couldn't be effective.

What are "floor mats'?

Can't say that they have ever "stayed" in any vehicle I ever owned..

The state bought a bunch of Toyota's this year. They have put out warnings to remove the floormats on all of them.

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Originally Posted by Roger

The state bought a bunch of Toyota's this year. They have put out warnings to remove the floormats on all of them.

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Yeah,, that's all we need,, cops flying down the road at an outrageous speed... Oh, wait...



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Yeah, I bought a brand new 98' Dodge Avenger back when. It had a similar recall, except it was a piece of the plastic under-dash which could come loose and trap the go pedal. One sheet metal screw later I was good to go.

My mom had some crappy $10 Walmart universal mats in her car. She couldn't quite understand why I told her to get on eBay and buy mats made specifically for her car. She finally did and then she saw on the news where someone had gotten into a bad accident and was in critical condition because the floor mat had snagged the accelerator and speed her into a wall. There was someone else in the car and that's how they knew. She called me the second the story was over and thanked me for being so stern on making her buy new floor mats. I'm as tight as they come but there are some things I refuse to save money on. Car floor mats is one of them.

How stupid are people that they just let a car speed out of control? Seriously.

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Originally Posted by Sturtle

How stupid are people that they just let a car speed out of control? Seriously.

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Welcome to America bro. Decades of creating laws to protect the stupid from themselves has resulting in endless droves of idiots. I think that Darwin fella was onto something...

America- A land with so much excess, that even poor people can be fat.