Toyota Prius throttle issue fix

[HaxbySpeed]

This is a must see for any toyota drivers!

[Wrinkleface]

Oh man, makes me want 2 run out & buy a Prius!!!

[phragle]

That guy has go to be related to me somehow........

[Ted]

That guy in Cali was a total scam...

[Ted]

Haxby, look at the way I changed it by pressing the edit key.


You basically put a [you tube] video code [/you tube] with no spaces between you and tube.

[HaxbySpeed]

Thanks Ted! Now I can post all kinds of useless chit!

[Boss460]

That guy is obviously an anger management specialist.

[Chris]

But even easier, you can do [ yt] and [ /yt]

(without the spaces)

[ZBODaytona]

thats great.....the only question i have, is....if there is a computer problem with the pedal then couldn't there be other issues as well that keep the car from going into N or off. Just sayin...of course the other side of me is like him....learn to drive.

[MacGyver]

And "drive right". Drive in the right lane, pass in the left lane.

[Ted]

thats great.....the only question i have, is....if there is a computer problem with the pedal then couldn't there be other issues as well that keep the car from going into N or off. Just sayin...of course the other side of me is like him....learn to drive.

You'd have to have 3-4 separate failures all at once for that to happen, quite unlikely. The module that controls trans and start/stop functions is not the same as what controls the fly-by-wire.

[Chris]

A good friend of mine calls me yesterday afternoon. Wants me to tighten a hitch ball onto a bar he just bought. He shows up an hour later driving some new Toyota SUV, which is what the new hitch was for. I asked him if he owned a television or read the newspaper. He said he "didn't think" that was one of the models with problems. His daughter loved it so he bought it for her to drive to college.

This isn't your average dumbass. He's an F'ing doctor. I didn't know what to say.

[ZBODaytona]

You'd have to have 3-4 separate failures all at once for that to happen, quite unlikely. The module that controls trans and start/stop functions is not the same as what controls the fly-by-wire.

kind of what i thought, but was just wondering. When computers mess up they tend to do it with a lot of things. especially now... back when i was in highschool I had 240 sx.. put in a new radio, without the correct harness, boy did that mess things up at first. Who would have thought the radio had so much control over things back then. Bought the harness and fixed the problems. Funny how things are linked that shouldn't be.

[Ted]

There has never been any doubt that once the manufacturers started using fly by wire eventually someone would butch the computer code up and it would cause an unintended acceleration. But all these accidents have happened because the people were either ignorant or just poor drivers. If you don't know enough to turn the key off or put it in neutral, Darwin comes a callin'. Sad but true. The putz in Cali was told to turn it off and put it in neutral, both times he mumbled about "controlling the car" which he managed to do for 1/2 hour at speeds around 90 mph. I find NO WAY to believe that if the car was really balls out and could not slow at all, that even a NASCAR driver could keep it going on any stretch of Cali highway in the middle of the day. The guy had to be slowing at points during the drive. No wonder he had a lawyer the day after it happened....

[fund razor]

A good friend of mine calls me yesterday afternoon. Wants me to tighten a hitch ball onto a bar he just bought. He shows up an hour later driving some new Toyota SUV, which is what the new hitch was for. I asked him if he owned a television or read the newspaper. He said he "didn't think" that was one of the models with problems. His daughter loved it so he bought it for her to drive to college.

This isn't your average dumbass. He's an F'ing doctor. I didn't know what to say.

I would have asked him if he owns a couple of F'ing wrenches.

[Chris]

At least he was smart enough to know you need more than a 16" crescent wrench to tighten a hitch ball. I put a 4' pipe over the inch-drive breaker bar and gave it everything I had.

Had one come off once years ago. Not going to happen again.

[Chris]

The putz in Cali was told to turn it off and put it in neutral, both times he mumbled about "controlling the car" .

Wasn't the one guy that died a Cali highway patrolman?

[fund razor]

At least he was smart enough to know you need more than a 16" crescent wrench to tighten a hitch ball. I put a 4' pipe over the inch-drive breaker bar and gave it everything I had.

Had one come off once years ago. Not going to happen again.

I guess if I lived closer to you, I would own less tools too.

[Chris]

Not everyone has an inch-drive set.

[Geronimo36]

Here's one that one of my clients (GM) sent to me, enjoy!