Anyone else had the accelerator pedal 'stick'?

[mikepaul]

It's been a few days, and it hasn't repeated, but when I decided to floor the accelerator the other day it didn't stop accelerating when I pulled my foot off.

I was pulling away from a stop sign, and since the road was open I decided to see how the car would respond if I punched the pedal to get to 50 instead of easing up. Well, it punched back, I guess. A quick repress on the gas and firm application of the brake ended the 'fun' ride at about 64MPH.

With all the fast-charging-this and constant-idle-that that have been posted here, I worry a bit that I'll trigger it again when it won't end nicely...

[kam]

Do you have all the all season floor mats installed? I seem to remember reading about someone else that experienced exactly what you described. It turned out that the back of the acceleration pedal is shaped such that it can wedge in between the ridges of the floor mats and get stuck down.

[jayman]

The throttle is drive-by-wire on CANBus and is Timing Triggered with multiple fault checks. Theoretically, the pedal will stop responding before causing unattended acceleration.

I'll side with physical interference with the pedal. I've had a few cases in my driving years where the pedal remained stuck: unusually humid cold day and the throttle blade on a carb actually froze; throttle cable frayed and stuck; and the worst offender a floor mat or an ice scraper caught on the pedal.

[V8Cobrakid]

it happens. I haven't had the "problem" in a long time. Doesn't really matter though. The breakes are a lot stronger than the power on the prius. If you hold the breaks and it still accelerates, it's simply just charging the battery as you slow down. A little freaky because that boost is usualy quite powerful. It tends to go away. At least that's what i found in my experiance 27,000 miles +

[mikepaul]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kam\";p=\"75715)</div>

Do you have all the all season floor mats installed?  I seem to remember reading about someone else that experienced exactly what you described.  It turned out that the back of the acceleration pedal is shaped such that it can wedge in between the ridges of the floor mats and get stuck down.[/b]

OK, I would have thought the fat/grooved mats I did put in just a couple of months ago would have prevented the pedal from going all the way to the floor, but this getting-caught thing sounds plausible.

No more screwing around: those retention clips are going IN this time, so the mat will stay out of the way and not be a potential problem.

Thanks...