Death Trap Mats!

[Lister2020]

So there I was driving along, when I went to brake at a junction, but the car doesnt slow down. I immediately begin to panic. Im pushin the brake pedal as hard as I can and the car is still doing 50. !Removed! time? Quite.

I ended up having to use the handbrake and swerve to the side to stop from hitting another car. The car just drove on, but I sat there for a minute.

Then I looked down at the frigging brake pedal, and guess what?

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THE ****ING MAT HAD SPRUNG UP AND WEDGED BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND THE BRAKE PEDAL, SO THE BRAKE PEDAL WOULDNT GO IN AT ALL!!!!!

And I couldn't get the mat to stay down either. I had to take it out and now I am getting my lovely floor dirty!

and on top of that, TWO birds came along and pooped on the car, on opposite sides!

If I had actually went in to the back of that car, I think I would have been handing the keys back. WTF is up with the mat doing this less than a month old?

Hell I have never seen or even heard of a car mat doing that before at all!

[compressor mad]

av u got the mat clips in place to stop it moving up?

[Lister2020]

av u got the mat clips in place to stop it moving up?

Yes and it was still clipped in when this happened. The mat didnt slide around, it SPRUNG UP AND WEDGED BETWEEN THE BRAKE PEDAL!

[Aygo28Blue]

Damn. Scary indeed :o Sometimes I think there's a difference in the 'feel' of the accelerator, but that's definately the last thing you want to happen to the brake. Must keep an eye on the mat myself. Scary it can do that even with the clip.

[Smithy07]

OMG!!! how fudging scary !!!

did it just suddenly spring up then ?

On the upside , at least you're ok :)

[Lister2020]

OMG!!! how fudging scary !!!

did it just suddenly spring up then ?

On the upside , at least you're ok :)

it must have because id no problem braking before that.

[merseybeat]

OMG ! :o

going out to check the mats now!

TL

[T V O R]

I have some heavy rubber mats over the Yaris mats. It stops the nice mats getting wet and dirty, they are easier to clean and they don’t move around due to the weight

Try that.

[SJandMR2]

this happened to me on my driving test, scary as hell. I kept aplogising to the examiner who I think as just pleased I hadnt crashed..

Is the proper toyota mats you got?

[weevicky]

I have mats which arent aygo mats and they do that all the time although they are STAPLED to the floor

[BadBoyVTEC]

I think this is a case of user error. Unless I see a picture showing me otherwise I don't belive something like this happens unprovoked.

[weevicky]

Nah they just ride un constantly no matter what I do. I'm tempted to take the mats out :(

[BadBoyVTEC]

I mean with listers mats. I want to see a picture of what happened to his official mats.

[SJandMR2]

I would say get some proper toyota mats which have the clip thing which keeps them in place, I have never had this in the Aygo, the mats never move.

[Devil-ish]

I have the proper Aygo mats n they are clipped in place. They dont seem to move a inch - thank goodness! Glad you is OK and your car remains unmarked :o

[Lister2020]

ofciurse I'm using the official mats and they were clipped in place before I got the car.

I could hardly !Removed! to mr t about non official mats

So badboy what did I do then use my psychic powers to will the mat up so

That I could total my brand new car? Yea that must be it

[zakelwe]

If your mats are turning up after such a short period of time it probably means it's time to change your socks ....

Seriously though, I can't picture in my head how it did what it did. Does the drivers mat actually go that far forward? In the Platinum it seems to be a lot shorter than the passangers side one, not sure if the mats for the blue are the same size though.

Regards

Andy

[Parts-King]

I have seen this happen when no clips are used, but when clipped in place, I'm not sure how it can happen. I dont think you can blame the Ncap safety rating either!

Kingo

[Lister2020]

What would my socks have to do with it? Anyway, its lying in the boot now, whilst my floor carpet gets wrecked :(

[Lister2020]

If your mats are turning up after such a short period of time it probably means it's time to change your socks ....

Seriously though, I can't picture in my head how it did what it did. Does the drivers mat actually go that far forward? In the Platinum it seems to be a lot shorter than the passangers side one, not sure if the mats for the blue are the same size though.

Regards

Andy

The mat isnt sliding, its as if someone took it out and bent it so that its not all flat now.

[T V O R]

The mat isnt sliding, its as if someone took it out and bent it so that its not all flat now.

Have you vacuumed your car recently and not put the mats back properly? Has someone else used you car?

I can’t see how mats would curl up on their own. There has to be a reason

[crisskro]

I don't get what does this problem have to do with the title. I mean you didn't crash.. did you?

[BadBoyVTEC]

You have obviously done something wrong to the mats and I think everyone is in aggreement. You have mis-shapen the mats intentionally or un-intentionally. This kind of thing does NOT happen by itself.

Please upload a picture.

[PaulGP]

You have obviously done something wrong to the mats and I think everyone is in aggreement. You have mis-shapen the mats intentionally or un-intentionally. This kind of thing does NOT happen by itself.

Please upload a picture.

I don't think he's intentionally tried to kill himself - it is just one of those unusual things that happen in life now & again.

[BadBoyVTEC]

I reckon he caught his heel on the mat by accident and pulled up the carpet, perhaps when he took his foot off the clutch. Come to think about it logically.