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brake pedal
the brake pedal on the 08 charger is over too far. Drew's rather large feet keep hitting the gas AND the brake when going for just throttle.
Is there a way to move the brake pedal over so that drew doesn't hurt his car by pressing two pedals at once?
i can get a picture of the pedals tomorrow if it helps
(he's at work and i'm not near him)
Is there a way to move the brake pedal over so that drew doesn't hurt his car by pressing two pedals at once?
i can get a picture of the pedals tomorrow if it helps
(he's at work and i'm not near him)
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Re: brake pedal
Other than remove, heat bend, replace or remove, cut, weld in new metal to reshape, replace, or cut bigger hole in floorboard and relocate all the components (probably not gonna happen, may be highly inconvenient as well) not much.
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Re: brake pedal
If thy toe offends thee,wannabe wrote:the brake pedal on the 08 charger is over too far. Drew's rather large feet keep hitting the gas AND the brake when going for just throttle.
Is there a way to move the brake pedal over so that drew doesn't hurt his car by pressing two pedals at once?
i can get a picture of the pedals tomorrow if it helps
(he's at work and i'm not near him)
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Re: brake pedal
I am assuming that he didn't do much test driving before buying the car. Is left-foot braking out of the question?
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Re: brake pedal
If it's like the pedal in my Buick, he can remove it, cut off its bushing, and remount it with the bushing on the other side.
Otherwise I'd say just cut off the offending portion...which I also did to mine.
Otherwise I'd say just cut off the offending portion...which I also did to mine.
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i dunno if he even test drove it...mtheis wrote:I am assuming that he didn't do much test driving before buying the car. Is left-foot braking out of the question?
it doesn't help he has size 17 feet either
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He could drive barefoot.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Re: brake pedal
He could cut out the floor and do the Flintstone car thing.
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Re: brake pedal
Size 17? Holy carp. I'm 6'7" and I wear "only" 15s.
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AHTOXA wrote:Size 17? Holy carp. I'm 6'7" and I wear "only" 15s.
yeah...hes like 6'4"-6'8". depends on if you go by what teh military says or the doctors
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Re: brake pedal
I imagine that during certain parts of his medical exam he might have risen up onto his tip-toes.wannabe wrote:AHTOXA wrote:Size 17? Holy carp. I'm 6'7" and I wear "only" 15s.
yeah...hes like 6'4"-6'8". depends on if you go by what teh military says or the doctors
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Re: brake pedal
You're saying there's a 4 inch difference in standard measuring? Uh...
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no. i'm saying he originally told me he was 6'8" but the military told him he's 6'4"...so he's going by the military...AHTOXA wrote:You're saying there's a 4 inch difference in standard measuring? Uh...
he's not a foot taller than me...or it doesn't seem that way anyway.
but yea
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He must be compensating for something.
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i wouldn't know...mtheis wrote:He must be compensating for something.