2 stage accelerator pedals
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jon- said:
MOST cars?
I'm fortunate enough to drive a lot of cars with work, and can't remember noticing a step on any throttle.
I didn't mean a physical step in the throttle pedal. I meant a step change in the engine's fuel to air ratio. I'm fortunate enough to drive a lot of cars with work, and can't remember noticing a step on any throttle.
I was merely hypothesising that the manufacturer in question might have chosen to make the position of the change-over apparent to the drive by introducing a change in the stiffness of the pedal. It sounds like that's not the case though, and it's the point of speed governer override.
Edited by kambites on Thursday 24th July 13:47
I had the same thing on a 61 plate Merc C250 (auto). Driving along normally, depress the accelerator over 50% would result in a kick down, but nice and smooth to overtake on a motorway without the passengers (disapproving in-laws) thinking you were driving like a loon. At 80% throttle there was second stage to the kick down, usually kicking down 2 gears. In my mind, it felt counterproductive to ever do this as it would always throw the revs to near enough 4500rpm right where it runs out of puff.
kambites said:
jon- said:
MOST cars?
I'm fortunate enough to drive a lot of cars with work, and can't remember noticing a step on any throttle.
I didn't mean a physical step in the throttle pedal. I meant a step change in the engine's fuel to air ratio. I'm fortunate enough to drive a lot of cars with work, and can't remember noticing a step on any throttle.
I was merely hypothesising that the manufacturer in question might have chosen to make the position of the change-over apparent to the drive by introducing a change in the stiffness of the pedal. It sounds like that's not the case though, and it's the point of speed governer override.
Edited by kambites on Thursday 24th July 13:47
Phewt1grm said:
On my Mondeo I cut a hole in the floor to allow the accelerator pedal to travel further. I got at least a 10% increase in performance.
Tut tut. I thought of doing this but fortunately before I did I opened the bonnet and adjusted the throttle cable so it was a lot tighter. Car was instantly 25% faster and more powerful. Traffic, not so good.
Jurgen said:
Can you set an electronic speed limiter? If so than it won't go past that speed unless you push the pedal all the way.
This is the correct answer.In normal driving pressing it into the last quarter doesn't (I think) open the throttle any more. It's purely to disengage the speed limiter/cruise.
MrMoonyMan said:
t1grm said:
On my Mondeo I cut a hole in the floor to allow the accelerator pedal to travel further. I got at least a 10% increase in performance.
Tut tut. I thought of doing this but fortunately before I did I opened the bonnet and adjusted the throttle cable so it was a lot tighter. Car was instantly 25% faster and more powerful. Traffic, not so good.
t1grm said:
MrMoonyMan said:
t1grm said:
On my Mondeo I cut a hole in the floor to allow the accelerator pedal to travel further. I got at least a 10% increase in performance.
Tut tut. I thought of doing this but fortunately before I did I opened the bonnet and adjusted the throttle cable so it was a lot tighter. Car was instantly 25% faster and more powerful. Traffic, not so good.
I was instantly beating RS turbos and M5s with my 1.4 Astra. Amazing.
Good one.Urban Sports said:
Currently in Spain driving a brand new Megane Bose diesel and it's got an accelerator pedal that goes down to about 3/4 and then needs a harder shove to get it to the floor, it's not the first car I've driven that does this but I genuinely can't think of a reason for it?
Sounds like the throttle pedal fitted to all movie cars. They all seem to need an extra harder shove to get full throttle after they've already been racing "flat out" neck and neck for 5 minutes. Certainly I assume that's why you get some footage of them pressing the pedal to the floor. I'm a man who likes to think that he can put the pedal to the metal if required.
I drove a Fiat 500L rental car. In a comedy drag race I was soundly beaten by a Picasso.
I then realised that the pedal went further with more of a prod. Full power was now available.
There were no more scalpings by Picassos.
I assumed it was an EU test frig of some sort.
I drove a Fiat 500L rental car. In a comedy drag race I was soundly beaten by a Picasso.
I then realised that the pedal went further with more of a prod. Full power was now available.
There were no more scalpings by Picassos.
I assumed it was an EU test frig of some sort.
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