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Crazy floormat experience

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Old 07-21-07, 01:15 AM
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I got my car washed. They put my floor mats back in a sloppy manner. I was driving back home and hit the accelerator hard at one point. Well to my surprise when I put the pedal to the floor, my pedal tucked under my floormat! The pedal held down right before I had to turn a curve in the road. I almost hit the rail guards! My first thought was the throttle cable got stuck. I hit the brakes but it was still hard to stop. I panicked and put it into neutral but then the engine kept revving to the RPM cutoff. I ended up turning the ignition key off and pulled over immediately. In this case, neatness does count. I don't have the plastic peg that holds the mats to the hole in the floorboards. Keep the floormat away from the pedal!
Old 07-21-07, 01:30 AM
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Old 07-21-07, 12:27 PM
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My buddy years ago had that paper mat the dealer place on the floor when there servicing your car, ball up under the brakes and bumped me at a stopped light. No damage to our cars but I was like what da *#^k!
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Damn that would of suck totaling your car because of a floor mat.
Old 07-25-07, 08:05 PM
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