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around. sure. with the sudden acceleration problem, have you figured out what the problem is? toyota has, the sticky accelerator pedal. yes, yes. and they have had their engineers work 24/7, came up with a repair. presented it to nhtsa. they have approved it, we ve implemented it. we just need people to bring the vehicles to us so we can take care of it. and you really want people to do that. yes, we do. so what did you bring me here? you brought me the fix here? gears and nuts and bolts, what do you have here? this is the gas pedal, accelerator pedal off a vehicle. and this is made by cts, which is the first phase we re doing at this time. and what we re doing is putting a reinforcement bar internally into this pedal to reduce friction and wear as the pedal goes along. okay. you have to pop this backing plate off, take a feeler gauge, stick it in, take a measurement. you go to a chart and it will
side, so we can get a closer look at that replacement bar that you are putting in there now, the reinforcement bar, as you put it. this is first of all, just give us the rundown. this is where the foot goes, and it will go in the back there. so the reinforcement bar slips in there. yeah, behind the stopper. the customer will not feel any change in the pedal. reporter: the idea is what, to reduce what? reduces the friction inside the pedal. reporter: why do you not want the friction? because it causes wear. that s when they had the sticking issue. reporter: this whole repair should take you, with practice and time, how long? half hour per vehicle. reporter: what do you think the days and weeks are going to be like for you? we will be working overtime. yeah, a lot of overtime.
to learn how to do that repair. one of those, mike gates, he just finished up that training, and now he is here working on a car. again, these are mainly rentals they are starting to work on now, until they can get the customers in. mike, tell us what exactly ch le looking at what you ll be repairing. this is the accelerator pedal and we ll put the bar in the back. reporter: it was loose. we re coming around to get a better shot of that. let s come around to the other side so we can get a closer look at that replacement bar that he s putting in there, the reinforcement bar, as you put it. all right. so, this is first of all, give us this is where it is in the vehicle. reporter: where the foot goes obviously. moves like this. reporter: got it. and it will go right in the back here. reporter: and so that reinforcement bar will slip in there. slips right in behind that stopper. reporter: got it. and a customer won t even feel any change in the pedal. it will be
normally you d be at the workstation but you re going to hold this for us right now. we re going to measure the clearance here and install the reinforcement bar right in behind this stopper. reporter: and what s important about what that s going to do? it s going to reduce the friction inside the pedal. reporter: so this is where the pedal is, everyone would recognize this. as the foot goes down, will the customer notice any difference? the customer won t feel any difference. reporter: and what will the driver this is going to prevent it from you don t want friction because why? the friction, excessive friction caused the sticking problem. reporter: and that s what caused some of the problems. that s what we re going to eliminate with the bar we ll put in there. reporter: you re going to be a busy man i think in the coming weeks and months. let s talk now to the general manager of this dealership. his name is dennis lazan. now, dennis, the big question is we all