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Jimny Auto pedal pressure
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Strange question, and I think I know the answer!
I have a right foot injury, driving an '03 Jimny Auto.
Does anyone have any idea whether it is possible to make the accelerator / brake pedal easier to press down to use?
...Thus relieving my poor foot?
Am not a mechanic but would pay someone for the job.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
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You might find that the not having to move your right foot from pedal to pedal is enough.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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I tried and tried with this but I guess driving a manual for N years made it tough to switch.facade wrote: Just use your left foot for the brake
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Considering putting in Waeco MS-50 cruise control kit.
Don't know how to go about installing larger vac assembly... how/what to buy?
Have been left-foot braking and it has helped - it's a bit scary to start with but I think I have got the hang of it!
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helijohn wrote:
I tried and tried with this but I guess driving a manual for N years made it tough to switch.facade wrote: Just use your left foot for the brake
AFCBTezza wrote: Have been left-foot braking and it has helped - it's a bit scary to start with but I think I have got the hang of it!
The main thing to watch is forgetting it is an auto and using the brake like a clutch. However, you only do it once
I've ridden motorbikes for years, you use your left foot to brake and left hand to clutch, pushbikes you use your left hand to brake the back (apparently in Far Far Away Lands, Foreigners have the back brake on the right )
After a while you can learn to do pretty much anything to a reasonable degree, it is just establishing muscle memory.
There is a possibility that in an emergency you will brake with both feet, but the ABS will sort that out, and if you don't have ABS and can't figure out how to get back in control, likely you'd have kept them locked with one foot anyway.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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