A word of advice

[K4fxd]

Can you just picture what gear drive would look like for the coyote. Could hear that motor coming a mile down the road

Use helical gears.

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[Garfy]

It's trickier in an automatic because you have to think through a process that you don't ordinarily do. Most people rarely shift into neutral while moving. Those of us with manuals can just clutch it in like we always do then listen to our wallets dump out the bottom of the car.

I recall older cars in the mid-2000's that if you weren't in drive and you floored it, the engine wouldn't go past 3000 as the rev limiter kept it from going over (you could hear the engine go vroom-vroom-vroom as the injectors were being cut off and turning back on as it went past 3000 and dropped and revved up again and dropped so you shouldn't blow the engine, unless companies today took that protection away figuring they could sell more engines if people over-revved.

 

[Garfy]

This is what my manual has:

I laugh in that they say to stop the moving vehicle:



I wonder if hitting the stop button three times quickly will stop the motor while moving?

Love the warning:



If the air bags are turned off when the engine is off scares me a bit. Not sure I would want to turn the engine off.

Now wait a minute. The steering is electric power assisted and not driven off the engine. why would steering be affected? I can understand brakes.

Makes me glad I drive a manual.

The steering assist only works in the "ON" position; if you turn the engine off, obviously it's no longer in "ON" but either OFF or ACC, both positions that the EPS won't work.

 

[Garfy]

Hey members just a word of advice on changing floor mats . I replaced my floor mats to some pony ones and they nearly killed me . After I pushed the gas pedal to the floor one night the car took off as I wanted ,but it would not slow down and I thought I was going to crash and die . After a while of trying everything to stop the car. at a great speed which I’m not going to tell you ,I ended up slowing the car up enough to work out what was going on . With the gas pedal on the floor the floor mat slipped over the top of it ,so when I took my foot off the pedal was jammed on the floor . Not good hey . The factory floor mats are hooked in to the carpet ,aftermarket just sit on top of the carpet .

It's funny when I bought my car, it had nice front mats that were carpeted. No rears so I asked them for rear mats too as part of the sale. They told me there weren't any rear mats alone so I had to get the complete front and rear set. When I got it, they looked like the Weathertech rubber mats; thick rubber with the little raised "walls" around the edge in case you spill liquids and such. The front ones hooked into the retaining pins on the front so never had a problem with sliding mats under the accelerator pedal. Looks wise, I guess the carpeted ones would look nicer but these rubber ones are more practical.

 

[CJJon]

It's funny when I bought my car, it had nice front mats that were carpeted. No rears so I asked them for rear mats too as part of the sale. They told me there weren't any rear mats alone so I had to get the complete front and rear set. When I got it, they looked like the Weathertech rubber mats; thick rubber with the little raised "walls" around the edge in case you spill liquids and such. The front ones hooked into the retaining pins on the front so never had a problem with sliding mats under the accelerator pedal. Looks wise, I guess the carpeted ones would look nicer but these rubber ones are more practical.

That is what mine had when I bought it. I still have the GT/CS logoed mats in the plastic.

 

[WildHorse]

Ok just tried. On my 17. If I hold the start/stop with the car moving it definitely shuts off. Learned something new.

 

[Jaymar]

I recall older cars in the mid-2000's that if you weren't in drive and you floored it, the engine wouldn't go past 3000 as the rev limiter kept it from going over (you could hear the engine go vroom-vroom-vroom as the injectors were being cut off and turning back on as it went past 3000 and dropped and revved up again and dropped so you shouldn't blow the engine, unless companies today took that protection away figuring they could sell more engines if people over-revved.

That was a thing on some cars. I remember trying to wail on a rental Escort somewhere around that time frame and that turd sucked so bad it wouldn't even let you neutral drop it. They finally succeeded in making a car so boring you couldn't even drive it like a rental.

 

[Glenn 70]

So how does a floor mat have enough weight to it to keep the accelerator pedal pressed to the floor - am I missing something?

I've pulled and put my factory driver floor mat right up on and over the pedal assembly and it's not heavy enough to mash and retain the pedal to the floor at all.

Not doubting the OP, just wondering if something else was an obstruction.

Well it happened ,and was an aftermarket floor mat . Got jammed under the brake pedal and over the gas pedal ,how it keep the pedal down I don’t know , I didn’t have time to look down doing 120 mph at night .

 

[Garfy]

Well it happened ,and was an aftermarket floor mat . Got jammed under the brake pedal and over the gas pedal ,how it keep the pedal down I don’t know , I didn’t have time to look down doing 120 mph at night .

Quick question, what were you driving? Your info says 1970 Mach 1 but those cars didn't have any floor mat retainers. Just wondering.

 

[Glenn 70]

Quick question, what were you driving? Your info says 1970 Mach 1 but those cars didn't have any floor mat retainers. Just wondering.

In my 2016 mustang GT

 

[1958cyclist]

I noticed the intentional clip-in accessory on the stock floor mats and decided to let them be for the time being, with just this "stay-in-place" aspect in mind. If at such time they start to wear, and they will, I'll investigate an after market set, but only with the hold down accessory hardware.

 

[Fly2High]

In my 2016 mustang GT

may I ask who manufactured those?

 

[Fly2High]

I was looking at Lloyd carpeted floor mats and from the gallery photos, they do have holes for keeping the carpet in place

I will assume they all do since I only found photos for this one and I am not sure the year.

 

[Jaymar]

I was looking at Lloyd carpeted floor mats and from the gallery photos, they do have holes for keeping the carpet in place

I will assume they all do since I only found photos for this one and I am not sure the year.

They do.

 

[ShadesOfBloo]

...Out of gear, peddle stuck on the floor, hello rev limiter .

I had a '96 Nissan where that combination cut off the engine AND locked out the starter.
it happened a couple of times because I missed a shift and tripped the rev limiter while it was out of gear.

The feature was apparently intended to not only save the engine, but make you sit and think about what you've done.

The first time it happened it was at highway speed, and I'd missed the shift to 5th. As the car slowed down and failed to restart in neutral, I thought to put it in 5th and try again. It worked just like push-starting.

The 2nd time it happened was on an autocross course. I tried to re-start, nothing from the starter, and a bunch of course workers came over to get my car off the course. While they were pushing, I put it in 2nd gear and told them I'd try one more time to start it. It started right up.

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