On Jan 30, 9:44*pm, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:04:57 -0500, mm
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:46:43 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

mm wrote:
OT *Toyota

If it's not the carpet that's causing Toyatas to speed up, then how
can replacing the gas pedal help?

* * I couldn't find the article I saw this in again. *The problem is
moisture getting into the accelerator somehow. * Symptoms of a possible
problem include the accelerator being harder to depress, not operating
smoothly, and or not returning to the upper position.

Well none of that is the pedal. * They were still talking about the
actual pedal on Friday, the thing your foot rests on, right?

Then today Saturday they announced something but it's still about the
pedal, right?

The pedal is not just the pedal any more. *It is an electronic device
with a footpad that tells the computer how fast you want to go and
some other servo motor opens and closes the throttle as needed. *

In the past, metal rods or cables worked the throttle and a spring
pulled it closed. *It is now a drive by wire system that should
failsafe to a closed mode, but evidently is not.- Hide quoted text -

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Years ago working on my camry under the hood I reved the motor and
released the half round cable holder that I reved it with, the motor
stayed at Full Rev, the cable did not slide back into the sleeve at
the top of the motor fast enough, the plastic cable holder binded up,
folded over in a kink, until I reved it or yanked on it again. Didnt
Audi "supposidly" have an issue years ago, Anybody who hits anyhing
now in a toyota says their car did it, not them, but the non accident
claims of acceleration are what make me wonder since they are not
finding beer cans wedged in the pedals, or the drivers quickly remove
them.