floor jambs
Aleksander Mierzwa
alexaudi at kki.net.pl
Mon Jan 22 10:12:09 EST 2001
At 13:16 01-01-19 -0500, Patrick Austin wrote:
>Yep, for the floor mats. I seem to recall that Audi put them there because
>of the unintended acceleration BS. They thought that the floormats might
>be sliding forward and getting under the pedals and blocking them.
And they were right. I had an aftermarket "floormat" (actually, a piece of
carpet put by the cheap previous owner) slide forward and block the gas
pedal in the kickdown position. Needless to say, it was a rather scary
experience and I believe the mounting posts for floormats a great idea.
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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT
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