That's easy Chris... The at's have the steel reinforced accererator pedal to withstand the constant force of futile efforts to push the "go faster" pedal. If it wasn;t reinforced, it would snap under the pressure of being jammed into the floor. Don't diesel's have it too?? : >
On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 02:06 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 12:05:55 EDT > From: JordanVw@AOL.COM > Subject: Re: [vanagon] vanagon trivia..who can answer this??? > > In a message dated 5/13/05 11:59:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > n6mod@milewski.org writes: > > >>> why do automatic transmission vanagons have a plastic accelerator >>> pedal >>> reinforced with metal, and manual transmission vanagons just have a >> plastic >>> accelerator pedal with no metal reinforcement on the pedal? >> >> Kickdown switch? >> >> > > no.. the automatic vanagons dont have a kickdown switch on the floor. > any > other guesses? > > chris |
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