Close Call: Metal to the Pedal

[sjp3003]

So last weekend I finally had time to install my BMW aluminum pedals on my M6 135. I was very pleased with the new look for the past 2 days. Then this evening I was driving home and I blipped the throttle (let's say a P Car was next to me) and WHOA....the accelerator disappeared and the revs rose to 7000RPM. Good thing this is an MN6: I feathered the clutch and pulled over. The accelerator was flush with the floor. I reached down to pull it up and noticed it had stuck to the floor. The small portion of the top two screws protruding beyond the supplied locknut on the top portion of the accelerator had bored into the ground and gotten stuck there.

Bottom line: be sure not to have long screws at the top of the accelerator pedal

[ken1137]

Wow! Close call with your "Toyota Moment"

[jkoral]

Wonder if you two were using the same pedals -- from http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590584

Originally Posted by pixelblue

... he started picking up speed after a few laps and then an OMG moment. I noticed something was wrong and he was fidgeting with the car and trying to shut it down while we were still driving around the track. I asked what was wrong and he tells me the throttle is stuck wide open! you can imagine my horror when he started to ask me what to do. so we kept it in 6 gear and used the brakes to slow us down until we managed to get to the pit area and finally I told him to stall the car which he did and then there was smoke coming from the brakes. next thing I see is the pit crew rushing over with fire extinguishers putting out the brake pads which were on fire! .... anyway I found out the reason the throttle was stuck was that the pedal would stick when you mashed the throttle. guess the reason that never happened while I been driving was I never mashed the throttle. so the reason the throttle got stuck was one of the screws that held the race pedals was protruding from behind and it was a sharp screw.

[MPFit]

Lol at Toyota moment!

[pinmagic]

I'm a lawyer, and I saw the whole thing - we will OWN this company when I'm done with them!

Seriously, tho - were those BMW OEM pedals? And were the screws provided with them? If so, that's a major problem, and BMW needs to do something about it.

[pixelblue]

I'm the other guy who this happened too. OP, were your pedals by ultimate pedals? Can't believe this happened again to someone else recently. This is a potentially very dangerous situation and thank god we were both lucky otherwise we would have one hell of a law suite in our hands

[JimD]

My pedals were from Taiwan but I noticed the possible interference during installation and cut the screw with a dremel type tool. I took the pedal assembly out of the car so I could get a nut on the bottom two screws. With the assembly out, it was easy to see that the pedal could not be depressed all the way without one screw hitting the housing.

I think the moto is to take the accelerator out of the car for assembly (the electrical connector is a pain but it isn't hard) and check for a screw hitting the housing and it you have it, trim the screw.

Jim

[igzekyativ]

Originally Posted by JimD

My pedals were from Taiwan but I noticed the possible interference during installation and cut the screw with a dremel type tool. I took the pedal assembly out of the car so I could get a nut on the bottom two screws. With the assembly out, it was easy to see that the pedal could not be depressed all the way without one screw hitting the housing.

I think the moto is to take the accelerator out of the car for assembly (the electrical connector is a pain but it isn't hard) and check for a screw hitting the housing and it you have it, trim the screw.

Jim

where can i find out how to take out the accelerator assembly?

[pixelblue]

^ you don't need to go through all that. if you have a sharp screw sticking out from behind the pedal, either cut the tip off so it's not sharp, sand the tip down so it becomes dull or replace the screw with a flat tip screw

[jkoral]

Originally Posted by igzekyativ

where can i find out how to take out the accelerator assembly?

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209687

These happen to be the pedals I have, and unlike the BMW Performance pedals and most other pedal sets, the BMW Stainless Steel pedal kit replaces the whole accelerator assembly. No drilling or screwing.

[sjp3003]

Originally Posted by jkoral

Wonder if you two were using the same pedals -- from http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590584

I was using these pedals from BMW:

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211725

I got them straight from a dealer.

I will get around to filing off the excess screw this weekend (traveling and am on my way back as I write this).

In the meantime, I smile to myself that if my car happens to get stolen (it was broken into a few weeks ago and my iPod was stolen in a smash and grab) the robber will have one hell of a surprise!

[crbalch]

So you used the screws with the nuts for the gas pedal? I think you are supposed to use the other screws that don't have nuts...

I messed up when drilling my pedal and did the bigger bit for the screws with nuts so know I need to buy another accelerator assembly in order to redo it.

Originally Posted by sjp3003

I was using these pedals from BMW:

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211725

I got them straight from a dealer.

I will get around to filing off the excess screw this weekend (traveling and am on my way back as I write this).

In the meantime, I smile to myself that if my car happens to get stolen (it was broken into a few weeks ago and my iPod was stolen in a smash and grab) the robber will have one hell of a surprise!