Video: Jim Lentz makes his own recalled pedal fix film
 

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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><sma ll>Toyota's Jim Lentz explains the sticky pedal situation - Click above to watch the video <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/05/video-jim-lentz-makes-his-own-recalled-pedal-fix-film/#continued">after the break</a></small></strong></em></div>
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<span class="description"><a href="http://autoblog.com/make/toyota">Toyota</a> President and COO Jim Lentz decided to go ahead and visit one of the automaker's own dealerships to see one of its recalled gas pedals go through <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/04/toyota-dealer-shows-us-fix-for-sticking-accelerator-pedals/">the shim-fix</a> for himself, and he helpfully brought a video crew along for the ride. After giving a brief rundown of what's happened thus far - a much more thorough version of which <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/toyota_recall/guide">can be found here</a> - Lentz turns the duties over to one of the dealership's service technicians, who runs through the actual process of fixing a defective pedal.<br />
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Now, for a few observations: First, we wouldn't want to take his place behind the camera, but all Lentz needs is a basketball for that left hand of his and he'd be a veritable Harlem Globetrotter. Second, the fix doesn't look all that difficult, and it takes the technician just a few minutes to add the shim after the affected pedal has been removed from the vehicle. Lastly, for another take on the pedal-shim operation, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/04/fixing-toyotas-recalled-pedals-the-video-starring-doug-the-mas/">see our previous video on the subject here</a>.<br />
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Check out Lentz's video <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/05/video-jim-lentz-makes-his-own-recalled-pedal-fix-film/#continued">after the break</a>, and check out our high-res image gallery of the process below.<br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/">How Toyota dealers will repair sticky accelerator pedals</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/toyota-pedal-fix-1280--01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/toyota-pedal-fix-1280--02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/toyota-pedal-fix-1280--03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/toyota-pedal-fix-1280--33_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/how-toyota-is-repairing-sticky-accelerator-pedals/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/toyota-pedal-fix-1280--04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
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