On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:33:25 -0600, "HeyBub"
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?

How many of you are still driving your Toyota?


Would you have thought to put the car in neutral if it's speeding up?

Some cars, Toyota probably, can't be shifted at speed.

Can you imagine what would happen if, while you're driving along Route 101
enjoying the scenery, your girlfriend squirmed around with an urgent need to
put her face in your lap and in so doing hit the shift lever?

Actually they can ALL be shifted into neutral, and the ECU will limit
the RPM in neutral to a safe limit by cutting the injection.
IMPOSSIBLE to over-rev any OBD2 equipped vehicle in neutral or with
the clutch depressed.

Try it some day. Start the car. In neutral. Floor the accellerator.
What happens??? At about 4000 - 4200 RPM the engine cuts out and it
just sits there, bouncing between about 3500 and 4500 RPM until you
lift your foot. The engine protects itself from driver stupidity and
gives the driver a safe "out" if a throttle malfunctions.

This has been true since at least 1995 on most vehicles, and since
1996 on all vehicles officially sold in North America.