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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I'm with Captain Awesome on this. Toyota probably has an understanding of the issue but refuses to admit their engineering flaw for their design flaw because floor mats are believable to the foolish public who probably don't know what drive-by-wire means. Toyota probably instructs their idiot dealers to flash the cars that come in for the recall, and they will do it because Toyota said to do it without missing a beat in the bold lies of reliability that they will tell their customers.
I believe that they have an engineering problem. The tune is glitchy and causing some cars to accelerate to speeds that many of us joke a Toyota could never meet. All jokes aside, this is a really scary problem, and it would be unbelievable that floor mats would cause this, so the NHTSA is mandating changes that will make Toyota either admit that they know the problem is something else or will stop Toyota from blaming something so ridiculous. A mat sits there. An accelerator accelerates the car. The NHTSA doesn't care about the mat but does care about the sticky accelerator, so mandating replacement makes a lot of sense. Toyota will oblige to protect itself from blame for bad engineering in the general public, but every idiot dealer will probably plug in new programming without even knowing the pedal was never the problem.
I swear it's like doing business with the NSA. They'll cover this like the US protects its national security interests.
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King of the Rocket Scientists speaking...........
Mats don't just sit there. The floor mats in question have two holes in the rear of them. There are 2 clips that mount to the floor of the vehicle and the clips acutally go through the floor mat and hold it in place. Now where some flawed logic goes into play is that customers are placing the all weather mats ON TOP of the existing floor mats and there is nothing to seure them because the clip can't go through both. On the all weather mats they have deep ridges to catch dirt and water and the heel of your shoe catches that and slowly pushes the mat forward until it presses the accelerator down or when the accelerator gets pressed down the end of the accelerator gets caught on the mat and can't go back to the neutral position.
Now once again, I am not sure if that is the only cause of the issues being claimed but I do KNOW that happens because I have seen it happen first hand.