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Mystery Obstruction
For about six months, I have been plagued by a firm piece of black plastic which serves to obstruct my foot when I move it from accelerator to brake pedal. Oddly enough, it doesn't bother in the other direction. I have tried to pull it out, but it is firmly attached and won't come out without violence or a knife edge.
I decided to live with it until I take out the carpet and underdash panels when I install my heated seat wiring and figure it out then. Last night I was reading old threads about removing dashes and, in a wonderful thread by Boxfordbenz, I found two pictures of the piece which have the carpet removed and actually show the thing in its entirety. If you look at the pictures below, you'll see a piece of black plastic with a few bends. In Boxfordbenz's pics, the piece rests all the way back in the corner behind the accelerator pedal, in front of the floor heat vent. My picture is hard to make out, I can't seem to get it light enough with my flashless camera. But if you zoom in, you can see the plastic piece juts out between the accelerator and the brake pedals. What the heck is the thing? Where is it supposed to go? Can I peg it to the hump somehow so I don't wind up rear-ending a truck? Thanks for the help, Mark
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Which vehicle is this in? Doesn't look like a the W123 or W126.
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I don't really see anything out of place...big feet perhaps?
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It's a W124. Sorry.
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It's clearly mounted the wrong place, as you're not supposed to see the foam and all the underdash components visible above it in your first photo. Take it off and move it up.
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