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Many floor mats have fixings to secure them and stop them fouling the pedals. I suspect there is another reason why a car would get to 120 mph unchallenged and as has been said, not moving the gears to neutral suggests someone with very poor common sense certainly a contributing factor. Wholly unconvinced.
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I cant remember the details, but Toyota is recalling many100k vheicles at great expense. They must be convinced. Remember the Americans are car users, and many dont know how they work.
Edited by Old Navy on 03/10/2009 at 21:15
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ive had some right near misses with cheap mats sliding about as i get in cars
ive actually had a groin injury for 2 months now due to paper mats
so be carefull out there...........
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It's hard for a non-USA based car maker to design a car with such stupidity of the user in mind.
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Perhaps electronic gear selectors don't allow neutral selection at speed?
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For a moment I thought this might be the return of the legendary "mats, what are they good for" thread.
Back Roomers of a certain vintage will remember it fondly.
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Knock it out of gear, or if brute power be needed i haven't yet found a vehicle that the brakes couldn't overpower the engine convincingly, i too think there's more to this than meets the eye.
Toyota are very quick to react and sometimes overreact, not saying thats the case here, but they have in other things...the Hilux Elk test being one such example.
As said, lets keep our ignition keys (and our normal handbrakes too), ultimately we can stop the engine dead, must be the Luddite voice again.
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Probably have the American compensation culture in mind...
The mention of paper mats is very relevant - they can be treacherous because they have no grip and slide in all directions depending on foot movement.
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Ford Explorers were well known to be able to foul the accelerator with early mats.
Apparently Nissan changes thousands of intakes on their cars after a discarded fag end was sucked in and set fire to the filter and then the whole car.
<3 America.
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Come on PU, you can't bump it and lock it!
HF, NoDo$h, Ian (CapeTown) and all the others....it's like Jake and Ellmore just rolled back into town in their 'black & white' to put the band back together - there, you see I got a motoring link in....
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OK - if it gets really boring on your own head be it !
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