Hello~! How's everyone doin'? Hope weather is looking good for everyone. As for me, weather is been horrible! It's so cold here! It's snowing.
Anyways, today I was checkin' my local news site for some news and I read a news about this lady's Toyota went berserk... To make story short, her '06 Toyota Rav4 accelerated. She states that
"Before I could even attempt to turn, all of a sudden it's like someone pressed on the accelerator"
I feel sorry for this lady. Not because she got in the wreck, but out of all the option she had, she chose to slam her car into the fence.
Now, what other options she had? K, here's some list if I as on her shoes.
- Slam the brake and keep my foot on brake.
- Gear down manually.
- Put the car in Neutral.
- Pull my e-brake.
- Turn off the engine.
Lil note on the "Slam the brake and keep my foot on the brake". I'm pretty sure some people pump the brakes, but actually for newer car ('04 & up) isn't good idea to pump the brakes, because brake pads heats up quickly. When brake pads heats ups, most of the pads become like jello and it wouldn't brake the way it should. While just slam the brake once and keep it there, there's actually less heat that brake pads go through. All the stock cars are made that brake power is powerful than engine power. That means all the stock car's brake can stop their engines (unless you tune your engine for more power).
Weird thing is her car is '06 Rav4. Yes, Toyota put up recall on Rav4, but only '09~'10. Why only '09~'10 Rav4's? Because it's to do with ECU (main computer) and accelerate pedal. Almost every 2~3 yrs Toyota change their ECU set up. So her '06 Rav4 and '09~'10 Rav4 are totally different thing.
Another thing is, IF that Rav4 had acceleration problem why didn't this wreck happened 4 yrs ago. Why NOW? Why 4 yrs after she owning the car. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm just so sick of these kind of news. Yeah that's nice that, she got on the news. Great, 15 mins spot light for life time injury...
Anyways, if you want to read the full article here you go
Manti woman blames accident on runway Rav4
IF your car happen to accelerate without no reason, just remember 2 things
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[1] Slam the brake and don't let go of the brake.
[2] Put it in Neutral.
99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% car will stop.
IF it still accelerates then turn off the engine. I can say for 100%, car WILL stop.
Anyways, hope everyone have safe week.
