Throttle just stuck open

When I still had my 95 Tacoma, which had the 2.7L & manual tranny, my pedal stuck at least twice while I had it. I threw it in neutral and stomped the pedal and it released. Just marked it up to the age of the truck and never really gave it much thought but always hoped it never happened again.

 

Whats the problem with keeping TW updated with the latest news of the recall???????

 

I agree, other Forums have it on their front page, but who am I to make an "Official Toyota Recall Updates" thread, If a mod decides to do it I would gladly post anything new there.

BTW If its not in a visible place, I'm sure people will start threads in other sections as well. Just as an example, when the recall started even a few days after, there were still people making new threads about the same thing.

I posted the news only to keep the Forum updated, I'm sure there are some of you (like me) that visit TW more than a news website.

 

awesome!

 

Didn't work

 

Nick, I tried it as well. Nothing happened. I'm not trying to sound rude or anything, but I seriously think something weird has to be done by the driver to trigger it. Perhaps hitting the gas and the brake at the same time without really realizing it? I did this while stopped to see what happened. Obviously the truck jerked forward, but I was testing the feeling of the pedals on my feet. I could definitely feel my foot on the brake, but if I wasn't paying attention to the feeling on the tips of my toes, I wouldn't have even noticed my foot was on the gas pedal. If you couldn't feel your foot on the gas, you'd press harder and harder on the brake, pushing the gas pedal down even more.




Anyways, that's just my radical theory. It makes sense to me, but I don't know if it'll make sense to you guys reading it.

 

I only did it for a split second.

 

So if Toyota admitted fault for it, what did they actually say was the cause?

 

It was the Yeti. Or maybe Nessie. Or the damn Jersey Devil.

I know one of those bastards is the culprit.

 

That Jersey Devil is a prick! I vote for him/her/it.

 

well hell... if the throttle ever gets stucks on my little 2.7 guess whats gonna happen.......not a dam thing.... wait no... it might think about going faster then its gonna realize its a 4 cylinder and be like ahh fuck it ....it would take ten minutes for me to gain 5 mph.

 

seriously.

 

My '07 Taco has accelerated out of control 3 times with me in it, 1 time with a friend. A few times was the freaking floor mat, including almost taking out a nice little red car in a parking lot. One time, the throttle stayed down while I was on the freeway, no mat issue. Luckily I was merging and no-one was close to the front of me. Was going 90mph when I realized the pedal was on the floor stuck there, so I tapped it a few times and it came back.

The fix? I just stopped slamming on the gas. That seems to be the sure way to engage the 2 issues I've run into (mats and sticky pedal). No throttle slamming, no out of control driving. Done deal.

 

Common sense. very nice to know some of us still have it

 

I was in my buddy's driveway last winter and it was just one big sheet of ice and when I backed up to begin heading out of the driveway the truck started to slip on the ice before I came to a stop, of course it was all ice right! But when the truck started to slip and the ABS was cutting in from me trying to brake to come to a complete stop but the truck was still accelerating at the same time I was trying to brake! I had to turn the ignition off when I was still backing up because if i went back 3 more feet I would of went over a 7 foot drop! I don't know if I had two pedals down with one foot is that possible yes likely no anyways it freaked me out but nothing as ever happened since.