Toyota Recall - a look inside the Gas Pedal and all its parts - a YouTube first

Carquestions takes an up close look at the inside of the CTS manufactured Gas Pedal to see how it works and what's causing it to stick leading Toyota to recall millions of it's car and trucks. Surprisingly it has only two moving parts and on first look appears to be a well made part. There is some "Star Trek" style physics going on inside with a device known as a "magnetic field generator". Lets Hope Toyota has a "Scotty" type who can figure out a solution and fast.

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[thewarzoneking]

it was not the gas pedal

[carquestions]

@thewarzoneking Yes I know - I believe I was one of the first to mention it and ask fora reward - see other videos

[ilia93]

im not familiar with this entire situation but i think the idea was that if you have some kind of rubber floor mats the pedal can get stuck on or underneath the mat when you "floor it " correct me if im wrong ... take a look at this : usrecallnews"dot"com/2009/09/t­oyota-recalls-3-8-million-vehi­cles-gas-pedals-sticking.html

[carquestions]

@ilia93 Yes there was a recall with stuck floor mats - but this was an issue for every car maker not just Toyota - it was a red herring as they say - the final report made it clear it was driver error - brake pedal mis-application

[carquestions]

@getnhigh247 Are you kidding? Where have you been? This is the Audi 5000 all over again - no car had a defective computer - just a defective driver. If you are scared of computers you'd better be warned whatever you have flown in or driven in in the past 20 years has had some form of computer control. Unless of course you have been using a bicycle exclusively for the past 20 years.

[carquestions]

@CODEEmx527 It was mass hysteria and mass media misinformation - NASA hasn't found the bug yet either - so they're either really slow or have found nothing

[chrisconwaypeters]

must have been the shoes

[ilia93]

@carquestions yes but arent they doing the recall because of that or because of other defects in the pedal ?

[Motorfordtoyota]

Why cant automakers go back to the old mechanical design? Since when was there ever a real problem with those? The only time Ive heard of a stuck throttle that way is when a cars secondaries on the carb got stuck open!

[Motorfordtoyota]

@CODEEmx527 The 2000-2004 (atleast, possibly through 2006, I havent looked at those) have mechanical throttles. The only way for the throttle to stick is a mechanical failure, like something being lodged in the throttle body.

[Edodrian454]

If those pedals are built anything like a heavy truck pedal... There's a idle validation switch along with an accelerator sensor.