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February 24th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Hey… I got out of FIVE speeding tickets by telling the officer, “Sorry the gas peddle was stuck” on my Toyota Matrix.
None of our Toyotas in the family are in the questioned years. All work fine. And I don’t use a Bluetooth connection while driving either.
February 24th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Also, it was revealed today that with the sticking gas pedals, the simple fix of slicing a little piece from the floor end of the gas pedal renders it safe, so get out your tactical pigsticker and git ‘er done!
As for the acceleration problems, if you have a newer ANYTHING, one that the engine must be started/stopped by use of the pushbutton, you are in grave danger of this sort of fault, so take the car to a good, non-dealer mechanic, and have them install a guarded scram switch within reach of your right hand, even with the seat belt locked. That switch should over-ride the computer control of the engine, and result in an instant shut-down.
February 24th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
The “push-button starter” fad is the dumbest thing in autos since tailfins.
February 24th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
hey stop that, I liked tail fins. Especially those on ’59 Caddys. Let’s compromise, “push-button starter” fad is the dumbest thing in autos since Edsels.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Hey! My dad’s 1950 Studebaker pickup had a push-button starter, on the dash.
Come to think of it, the Toyota Tundra kinda looks like dad’s 1950 Studebaker pickup.
February 24th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
“My dad’s 1950 Studebaker pickup had a push-button starter, on the dash.”
Yes, but it was probably a direct on-off mechanical button, rather than a momentary switch linked to a circuit board. đŸ˜‰
February 24th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Sorry, meant to say “a mechanical on-off switch for the ignition”.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:10 am
That M-35 truck I drove in the Air Force had a push button starter. So did the M-49, the M923, and the M925. So I guess the Army (who designed all of them) liked those buttons.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:17 am
My Studebaker 6X6 has a starter button — where it belongs, under the gas pedal. The “off” switch is on the dash. There is no key. Just like in Robert Johnson’s Terraplane, you do not “depress” the starter. You maish it.
The M-47 Eager Beaver may cross tundras; it in no way resembles one.
My driver switched off a Deuce on a mountain slope near Uedelhofen to save fuel, in early March 1945. This was a mistake, since the brakes operated on engine vacuum. His assistant driver bailed out. Compression eventually prevailed. He will turn 88 next month.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I hope all here realize that today’s “push button” start-stop “switch” is nothing but a hotkey on the car’s computer. the computer will start or shut down the engine when it feels like it, and that’s not safe enough.
The starter buttons or floor pedals in old-time vehicles were heavy momentary-on switches which directly engaged the starter solenoid when pressed by finger or foot.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Yes, hence my preference for the mechanical “On/Off” switch.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:43 am
The change over happened in computers.
Once upon a time the power button on your PC was a mechanical button. Push till it clicks in, power is on. Push till it clicks out, the power is off.
Now we have soft power switches with only one possession, that instead rely on the motherboard to turn power on and off. Press it, it turns on (mostly). Press it and the computer should start turning off. Hold it for 6 seconds and it should turn off. Should turn off.
Doesn’t always happen if something is wrong, like a short somewhere that causes the fans to run away to top speed, sounding like a turbine spinning up for take off.
Soft power is just fine for computers that don’t control multi-million grain projectiles. Soft power is not so hot if a connection somewhere is bad and everything revs to 11.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Darwin at work.