Slideshow
How Toyota dealers will repair sticky accelerator pedals
Aug 8, 2013
- LaFontaine Toyota in Dearborn, MI
- LaFontaine Toyota service department
- A row of new Corollas in the shop ready to be updated.
- Boxes of various sized shims.
- "Precision machined reinforcing bars"
- Reaching up under the dashboard of a Corolla to unbolt the gas pedal.
- Checking the manufacturing date code on the pedal assembly. This unit does require an update.
- A set of feeler gauges, strips of metal of calibrated thickness.
- Doug Kropp checks the gap in the pedal assembly with the feeler gauge.
- Toyota provides an instruction chart that specifies the shim thickness to use based on the measured gap.
- Kropp pushes the shim into the pedal assembly with a screwdriver.
- Kropp does a visual check to verify that the shim is properly seated.
- Kropp re-installs the accelerator pedal and connects the diagnostic computer.
- Another Toyota supplied instruction chart lists the voltages that the pedal position sensor should be outputting.
- Master Toyota technician Doug Kropp explains the recall procedure.