Manual Pedal Placement

[jlgumby]

I've searched, and it seems I'm alone on this. I had a beautiful CW Golf R on order for 11 months, and although I actually found it quite similar to my MKV GTI, I was looking forward to the extra traction and the added punch. But one thing concerned me. After I put the order in, I test drove a manual GTI as my wife was looking for one, and for some reason the top of my shoe kept getting caught under the dash when trying to move from accelerator to brake.

Now I didn't recall this on my R drive, so I drove another GTI since I couldn't find a manual R, and it was the same! I tried moving the seat back to use more toe, but then I was too far to comfortably use the clutch. Maybe my left leg is much shorter than my right, nah, I'd walk funny if it was.

For 10 months this hung in my head as the delivery date neared. It was actually dangerous as on one occasion I went to brake and I couldn't get my foot to the brake fast enough because it fouled something under the dash again.

Doesn't really matter now as I ended up not getting the car, but this still has me wondering why no one seems to have found this same issue. And no I don't resemble a clown. Well not in the size of my feet anyway.

Has no one else out there truly never found this at all?

[Shazzad0c]

I just picked up my MK6 GTI about two weeks ago, and never noticed anything before. Mind you mine is a DSG...

[SilvrFoxX]

re: Manual Pedal Placement

Take the clown shoes off, makes a huge difference

[Sardaukar]

Got a manual gti mk6 and no i haven't noticed anything like that.

[gtimike]

i have size 13 shoes,and am a new owner of a GTI MK6 and i havent had a issue..are you wearing healed shoes....heheh.

[Lucas_R]

Manual Pedal Placement

No problems for me. I always wear steel capped boots for work (which i dont like driving with) and even with those i never get my feet caught up. And drive quite often with joggers on and no problems with them either.

[Ideo]

Never had any problem.

Are you wearing douchebag spec long pointed brown leather slip on shoes?

[elephino]

Only car I've ever had that problem with is the Peugeot 206.

[Ryan_R]

Never had an issue - try adjusting seat height next time

[wai]

I have a Caddy Maxi Life with DSG and there is something a touch dangerous with the rubber brake pedal pads. There are two tabs of rubber that project down either side of the pedal. I take it that the idea is to prevent you from getting your foot under the pedal, only on one occasion the tab actually caught theoutside of my shoe and I had a bit of bother trying to stop with my shoe caught under the pedal.

Not too much of an issue for me now as I have had to start left foot braking because my right leg was severely damaged in a road accident 37 years ago, and I am having major problems with my right knee.

It is quite interesting training the muscles in your left to do the opposite thing. In a manual, you apply full force to press the clutch in quickly, and then modulate the release. For braking however, you need to modulate the application and can release quickly.

[jlgumby]

OK SO I HAVE BIG ASS ORANGUTAN FEET!!! Don't judge!! They go with my abundant hands which by the way probably wouldn't appear out of place on a well fed Gibbon.

Ok, I've calmed down now..... Guess this really is just me, I really don't get it, and it was one of the factors that ultimately took part in me changing my mind on the car. So strange. I must just sit so close that I stick my legs up under the dash. Come to think of it, I did keep bumping my chin on the steering wheel....... Hmmmm............... thanks all.. at peace now.

[mythik]

^ The reason they invented the Automatic car.

ITZ TOO HRD.

[magellan]

I have clipped the top of my shoe on something under the dash on a couple of occasions. Looking at it more closely, there is really not much room down there and you will get your foot caught if you use the brake pedal with anything other than the top third of your foot.

I also find the clutch and brake pedals a tad close to one another. A couple of times when going to press the clutch while braking, my left foot has just grazed my right foot causing the brake to be applied a bit harder. Annoying but the feet seem to work it out after a while and learn where not to go.

While I'm at it, when I first got the car, I found the gear stick went too close to the dash. The ends of my fingers would sometimes touch it. Doesn't happen anymore though.