I had a floor mat curl up on me. I knew it was curling, I didn’t know it was messing with the gas pedal until it actually grabbed it and wouldn’t let it up. Luckily it happened as I was pulling into home and had already dropped into neutral, it was a big WTF as the engine was running higher than it should when my foot is on the brake. Figured out what it was and threw out the floor mat.
Some of the newer vehicles I’ve seen have these stud kind of things that go through grommets and hold the floor mat in place, can’t curl then. Probably an invention somebody should have come up with for the 1st or 2nd generation of floor mats.
I have a Toyota Matrix (Corolla wagon, basically) and the floor mat on the driver side keeps inching forward until I can’t depress the clutch without nearly standing on it. This is most noticeable when trying to start it, because the clutch has to be mashed to the floor when doing that.
My solution - periodically pull the floor mat back. Duh.. LOL.
I think its actually the “dead pedal” causing the problem - when the mat gets too far forward it makes a sort of “hammock” under the clutch that catches the pedal. I should just get out the exacto knife and slice the mat next to the dead pedal so it can lie completely flat.
I’ve never had a problem with the mat interfering with either of the other pedals, just the clutch.
LQ