someone smack me! (floormat/gas pedal interference)

[Facime]

Cause I only today realized something so stupid that it defies logic that I never noticed it before.

So, I'm down checking fuses and stuff on the driver side cause lucy is being wierd again and it dawns on me that my big thick plush, but generic floor mat is kinda pushed all the way up under the pedals. So I pushed the throttle down to see if I was getting full travel out of it. hmmmm....looks like its hitting the mat before it bottoms out.

Take the mat out of the car and go for a test drive. reach operating temp and stomp it to the floor while pulling out onto hwy20. Tubo spools, tires break loose, hit redline and had to start feathering it in second to get the tires back on the ground.

Floor mats! They rob horsepower! I never thought of that. DUH!

 

[Sawbladz]

Now that you have this wisdom...GO GET CUSTOM MATS. If you have ever had a prooly fitting mat make your pedal stick to the floor...you would know why. (it happened to me...twice)

 

[tookwik4u89]

Now that you have this wisdom...GO GET CUSTOM MATS. If you have ever had a prooly fitting mat make your pedal stick to the floor...you would know why. (it happened to me...twice)

That has happened to me a couple times at work, I was pulling a customers car out and almost slammed into a row of new Lexus cars. I had the brake pedal mashed to the floor, and it was brake torqueing, I had to turn the ignition off. I about shit, it turned out to be the floor mats. I now warn people who have loose floor mats, extra floor mats, so many people put extra floormats or carpet in so their floormats won't get dirty.....it's very dangerous!:nono: I have seen complaint's from the low power like you had too Weez.

 

[JENNY!]

yeeeep. thats why i have my left and my right floormat on my right side.

 

[CFSapper]

tookwik whos ass is that in you dispaly pic?

 

[oscolivar1]

^^ i'd like to know too, but ne ways....

i had problems to with the floormats and gas pedal.
my uncle adjusted my clutch pedal so it won't interfere with the floormat.

 

[claricae86]

thats funny i was having one hell of a time with some floor mat interfearence the other day, so i took my drivers side floor mat out and havent put it in since. ill probably end up keeping it out for now

 

[Sawbladz]

Some of the best money I ever spent.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Toyota-Supra-Flo...ryZ33697QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[tookwik4u89]

tookwik whos ass is that in you dispaly pic?

It's my new ROTY campaign manager!
Edit...Keyra Agustina...I'll post a couple in hot women thread in OT!

 

[da89soup]

Weezy im glad you found lucy some more power!!!!! I would so +1 your ass if I could......lol :biglaugh:

 

[kwnate]

I had the same problem weez, only I took it one step further and made a cut out in the floor so I can achieve 110% throttle. I only do this at the track of course:biglaugh:

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

i have factory mats so I'm happy

 

[born2drv]

you wanna hear a funny story? i had some mint supra mats a long time ago (when i lived in toronto), and on top of that i had these thin plastic mats to protect them... and on top of that when the winter came i put some big rubber ones with channels to absorb all the melted snow.... well one day i floored it and i let go of the gas and it was stuck!!! i was slamming on the brakes spinning, etc, etc ... finally i turned the car off and coasted off the road like a retard.... luckily it was pretty empty so i didn't get into an accident.. learned a valuable lesson that day.... 2 floor mats is pushing it, 3 is too many!

 

[SupaMan]

my stock floor mats get under the pedals and piss me off so i just took the driver side 1 out and put it on the passenger floor.

shits a big safety hazard i dont think ill ever put that floor mat back in.

 

[tekdeus]

You just gotta pull it back away from the pedals. No biggie.

 

[iwannadie]

happened to me, everytime i got in the car the mat would slid just a little bit forward. so i just tore them out, who needs mats anyways.

 

[ViR2]

lol, you're having such weird problems... Its no biggie just to adjust floor mat every time u get in the car

 

[suprahero]

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't opereate a car with floormats in it.........................:biglaugh:

 

[Jaguar_5]

^ROFL Well Said!
Can't say i've never wondered wtf happened to my pedal travel :biglaugh:

 

[NashMan]

i do not run floor mats cause they can cause issue's plus i don't go thrumpy thouhg mud then get into my car

new cars now have floor matt hooks to stop them form sliding up and on to the gas pedal witch bealv it or not cause alot of accdents