Brake/Gas pedal spacing
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Brake/Gas pedal spacing
I just bought a new to me C5 and on the drive home I had a huge issue with the spacing between the gas pedal and the brake pedal. If I lightly rest my foot on the top of the gas pedal and slide left, my whole foot ends up underneath the brake pedal. Is this normal?
I searched this topic and it brought up a lot of heel/toe issues and some vendors piped in about a gas pedal extension, but that would only help in horizontal spacing. My issue is that the brake pedal seems much closer to me than it should.
Anyone else have this issue? This is the only car I've ever driven that has had such a wide gap between pedals. Any idea what could have happened?
I searched this topic and it brought up a lot of heel/toe issues and some vendors piped in about a gas pedal extension, but that would only help in horizontal spacing. My issue is that the brake pedal seems much closer to me than it should.
Anyone else have this issue? This is the only car I've ever driven that has had such a wide gap between pedals. Any idea what could have happened?
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Did an HUD retro today on it and crawled under there...brake bedal is sitting about an inch higher than the clutch. Is there any adjustment to the pedal assembly? The brakes seem to grab just fine.
My other car is a 550i and the clutch, brake, and gas pedals aren't even, but I can easily brake and blip the throttle with one foot. This one is spaced so far it almost seems unsafe.
My other car is a 550i and the clutch, brake, and gas pedals aren't even, but I can easily brake and blip the throttle with one foot. This one is spaced so far it almost seems unsafe.
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Goodness Sake! ... This is a subject of, or should be, that needs further attention... The foot dance, when sport driving, between throttle, clutch pedal and brake pedal.... Back in the day, this (like in the 50's) was all the talk amongst the "sports car crowd"... proper foot use of the pedals that were small and close together... One had to be in bare feet or "driving slippers" for the heal and toe thing... American cars had large pedals with plenty of foot room .. European had small and close together pedals that required little bitty feet to opporate,.... evedently European feet are little bitty. I had to drive my Elan shoeless!....Ah yes... CORVETTE was never in that discussion!....
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I had three C5s and never really experienced what you are seeing as a problem.
