Posted on 03/07/2010 11:12:34 AM PST by Oklahoma
How to Handle Sudden Unintended Acceleration: Video
In this video, PM senior automotive editor Mike Allen accelerates his car to 55 and then stops it—while the throttle is still open.
DO • Brake. Brake once, don't pump or ride the brakes. This will only heat up the brake pads, potentially overheating them and making them fail. It will take more force than you're used to to make the vehicle stop. Use both feet if you need to. • Shift. Move the gearshift into neutral. If the throttle is truly stuck, the engine will redline and make a lot of noise, but it won't be damaged. The injection computer will keep it from over-revving. Leaving it running will keep the power brakes an power steering working normally. Obviously, if your car has a manual transmission, simply stepping on the clutch pedal will slow the car. • Steer. Steer your car to a safe place off the road and away from traffic.
DON'T • Pump the brakes. • Shift into park. (Which won't engage at speed anyway.) • Drag the brakes. • Shut off the engine. (Well, shut off the engine as a last resort, but it may affect the brakes and steering, which will become heavier, although they'll remain operational.)
Had the same problem with a 77 Concours....so....I guess American Did It First!
Yeah.
Those darn American workers. They’re the enemy you know.
/s (because on this thread, the sarcasm tag is probably necessary...)
There seems to be two types of Toyota bashers on these threads. The first type believes the nonsense the media, bureaucrats and politicians are putting out about the cars in question. And the second type is the UAW-loving, “buy the American brand” even when that car is mostly Canadian or Mexican.
My Toyota was made in America, by non-union U.S. citizens. This is not a complicated concept.
I don’t support Goberment Motors. When they have the UAW and the power to regulate other manufacturers, you can’t rely on anything from their products to their propaganda.
Soon we won’t be able to afford cars or travel anyway.
Or a HONDA that employs nearly 27000 people in all 50 states?
Toyota and Honda come to mind.
They are the best built and longest lasting cars in our country.
Please, don't buy one. Support the UAW and other unions which are at war with our country and way of life.
You, sir, are an imbecile.
If you become more intelligent - congratulations! You'll be a moron.
Sad, sad man.
You ever worked in a union shop? In college I had a summer job and was a non union employee. One guy in my group threatened to kill me. What did I do? I “worked too hard”.
The problem with that line of thinking is, the factory is owned by a manufacturing company with loyalties (yes loyalties) to a foreign government.
Remember it was not so long ago, companies like Toyota formed the Zaibatsu (now called”Kiretsu”) which formed the industrial war-making machine of Imperial Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
Profits from your purchase of that Toyota, left the country and went directly back to Tokyo, enhancing the strength of a company without any interest in America, except to take our money, and our market.
Toyota is not American. No amount of spin will make it so.
Stolen from Brother Dave Gardner!
You have to wonder what is going on that people can’t think to put the car in neutral or shut off the ignition. The video says neutral first and ignition as a last resort but I could not stand to have my engine red line in neutral so I’d go for the ignition first.
Do you enjoy supporting the UAW?
If the throttle is truly stuck, the engine will redline and make a lot of noise, but it won't be damaged. The injection computer will keep it from over-revving.
You can't rely on the computer to work correctly when it is malfunctioning and causing the problem.
That being said, a cooked engine beats a high speed wreck.
You've just defined your UAW buddies.
Pull it into neutral, pull over, and then kill the engine. You won’t have any strain on the brakes if its in neutral. The engine shouldn’t being running long enough to do any damage.
Hopefully for them their other customers are able to keep them on; cleaning their homes, cleaning their pools and mowing their lawns.
Another sad thing about this is that these people are now 70%-80% employed... so they aren't able to consume in the economy as well as a couple of years ago.
Imagine if 10,000,000 pool, home and lawn service workers lose 20% of their business...would that be equal to 2,000,000 of them being unemployed?
Wonder if that's counted in the statistics.
Now, don't go maligning the Fuehrer. He recognized Ford was a good corporate citizen.
Toyota employees might want to get out the double hockey sticks for Cringing Negativisn Network but workers at other companies don't mind the extra work. Let's hope it is at companies that pay their workers I higher wage than Toyota.
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