Accelerator pedal too soft on 2024 PHEV

[Vadym Charkovskyy]

Accelerator pedal is so soft on my new 2024 Outlander PHEV, I don't know if it is possible to change the spring or adjust something to make it a bit harder to press. All the vehicles I own before was with "normal" gas pedals, but this one I cant rest my leg on it because it has too weak spring and is starting acceleration, so I must hold my leg up all the time and become tired soon. If anyone had this problem and resolved it please share the information. Thanks

 

[PHEV07]

Accelerator pedal is so soft on my new 2024 Outlander PHEV, I don't know if it is possible to change the spring or adjust something to make it a bit harder to press. All the vehicles I own before was with "normal" gas pedals, but this one I cant rest my leg on it because it has too weak spring and is starting acceleration, so I must hold my leg up all the time and become tired soon. If anyone had this problem and resolved it please share the information. Thanks

Welcome to our Forum Vadym

I also drive a 2024 PHEV GT Model and find the Accelerator Pedal tension to be just fine

Do you not position your foot so the heel of your foot is always on the floor, to pivot between the Accelerator Pedal and Brake Pedal?

Doing this should put no strain on your leg since the heel of your foot would act as a fulcrum, thus allowing you to use the required pressure on the gas pedal.

 

[michael8554]

Saw a video where the owner reported to the garage that the acceleration had become very slow.
The soft toy lodged under the pedal might have been a factor.
Try that !

 

[Vadym Charkovskyy]

Welcome to our Forum Vadym

I also drive a 2024 PHEV GT Model and find the Accelerator Pedal tension to be just fine

Do you not position your foot so the heel of your foot is always on the floor, to pivot between the Accelerator Pedal and Brake Pedal?

Doing this should put no strain on your leg since the heel of your foot would act as a fulcrum, thus allowing you to use the required pressure on the gas pedal.

Thank you for the answer! I am professional driver with 31years of experience I drove many vehicles before and comparing all previous accelerator pedals I never had such soft one. For daily regular use for short distances is ok, you can't really notice that much, but u go a bit far and then u feel the difference. I think will put some sponge under the pedal then, to compensate softness of the pedal. Btw at the dealership they say nobody complained. Weird.

 

[Mangala Ranasinghe]

Thank you for the answer! I am professional driver with 31years of experience I drove many vehicles before and comparing all previous accelerator pedals I never had such soft one. For daily regular use for short distances is ok, you can't really notice that much, but u go a bit far and then u feel the difference. I think will put some sponge under the pedal then, to compensate softness of the pedal. Btw at the dealership they say nobody complained. Weird.

The accelerator is just a variable electronic switch as I understood. It is not a normal accelerator you found in the other vehicles. Always try to accelerate when you really need and try to rest your foot on the floor board. I also found that difference and used myself for that. It saves gas and the battery energy.

 

[michael8554]

Nothing more excruciating than holding your foot poised over a soft pedal on a long journey.

Is there a return spring missing ?

Though I suspect even the throttle body is "drive by wire".

I have to say that in my 2014 it's not a problem

 

[AndyInOz]

Nothing more excruciating than holding your foot poised over a soft pedal on a long journey.

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Hence the provision of cruise control.

 

[littlescrote]

The accelerator is just a variable electronic switch as I understood. It is not a normal accelerator you found in the other vehicles. Always try to accelerate when you really need and try to rest your foot on the floor board. I also found that difference and used myself for that. It saves gas and the battery energy.

A sensor, not a switch.

All modern vehicles have drive by wire throttle actuators since several years. There is no physical tension cable for the pedal to open the throttle butterfly.

Having a sensor is what enables variable mapping of the pedal, which is actually what you are doing with B modes. In B0 then accelerator pedal at 0% depressed = 0 regen, and as you go up in B levels it moves the point where 0 regen occurs downwards through the travel.