wait a minute aren't those suppose to be steel?

 

So I went out and looked at mine (1/2 to check to see if mine was cracked and 1/2 to see how it could happen). It's fine, (~1500 miles). I'm still trying to figure out the way that this might happen. Where it's breaking is around the "box" that houses the switch that is pressed that tells the car to go (remember drive by wire). Unless you are pressing it SUPER hard at the bottom of the pedal against the stop (thus making the distance on the "arm" against the "fulcrum" much longer than if you pressed near the top of the pad), I'm not quite sure how this would break... let alone 3 times.

I have to wonder if there is something out of alignment on your pedals or something that allows there to be a lot of space behind the pedal, thus allowing you to push the pedal further down than it was originally designed.

 

I think you would be suprised how hard I am not pushing on it I'm sure if I was just driving it around normal on the street with occasional full throttle pulls I would never have the issue....or at least not this frequent. Over time, it will happen to more people as they stress the plastic.

Pushing too hard or not, I've never had an issue with any other car I've owned. They all had metal pedals with stops

Just because people aren't posting about it doesn't mean it isn't happening to others. I'm a proud EVO owner and will probably always have one, and if I have another recurring issue other than this pedal, it will be a used IX. I wasn't involved in this forum much until I had this problem and I would have kept it to myself and just replaced the part, but my service manager at the dealer wanted to play games and called my VIN into Mitsu after the 1st broken one to report that I was racing. Way to take care of a repeat customer that never argues on the sticker price I promised to tell a million people, so here we are

Next time I will have pics of me actually racing once I replace that POS pedal with a real one.

 

If you look at the side of the pedal that is solid, it is breaking right where the solid part ends and it is open. The support structure changes here on both sides. It is a weakest part of the pedal, and it just so happens that the most stress on the lever is right at this weak point. Push your pedal all the way down to the floor with your hand and you will notice that there is about 1/4 inch between the bottom of the pedal and the floor. Normally on a hanging pedal, you will have a stop. You probably won't have an issue if you drive it normally. If you are on and off the throttle as much as I am, it is only a matter of time before it cracks, but it may never break completely off. I'm not a small guy, and I am sure I push harder than most with my drag racing background. The harder you push the faster it goes right?

 

Evo X gas pedal FTL. Seriously though, isn't this something that mitsu should look at as a safety issue? Imagine merging on a busy freeway and all of the sudden the gas pedal broke and you start to decelerate rapidly. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

 

I have thought about that a lot and I frequently put my family in the car to go downtown to dinner or to other family outings. That is one of the neat things about an EVO. Kick some butt on the track on the weekend, then take your family out afterwards What if I stress the pedal racing on Sunday and then what you describe happens to my wife on Monday?

After this weekend, I'm not letting her drive the car and when we go to dinner it will be in her car or my truck. I have a 6 week old daughter to think about, and she won't be riding in it anymore.

 

Hmm... Its early and I had a rough night last night, but on the passenger side of my pedal I remember it being solid all the way up to the top where it connects to the rod. I'll check again before I drive to work.

This is a problem. If you're pressing down on the bottom on the pedal, you're lever on the fulcrum is very long and will allow you to apply a stupid amount of force on the plastic. Do you wear a size 6 shoe or something? I've got Frodo feet, so I can't even pretend to only press the bottom of the pedal!

 

Wow, it is not acceptable that any pedal has the potential to brake in any driving situation, racing or not.
You were in a controled environment and the same thing is bound to happen in the streets and can be fatal.

Mitsu should seriously start considering a recall campain on the faulty pedal and those of you that are blaming the OP driving style, just know that it might be a matter of time before your turn comes and you might not be fortunate enough to be in the safe environment the OP was when it happened.

 

I looked again this morning and the passenger side is solid except for one waffle area right where your's is breaking (which you already knew )

My pedal doesn't go all the way to the floor either -- and no rubber stop on the floor as well.

Maybe there is some lateral pressure on the pedal? Obviously heel-toe won't press hard enough on the pedal to do it, but at the last AutoX I was at, an SRT4 bent their brake pedal while left foot braking, so I'd bet that lateral pressure is something the engineers didn't design for and is what's causing the weakness.

ETA: I will definitely keep an eye on mine since I do track it a bit.

 

My budy was having the same problem. He got the evo x he went to the track and he broke the pedel as well. His seat ripped open on the sides harness broke the plastic piece on the seat handbrake fell apart trans wouldnt shift into sencond without it being forced in.

This all happend at one track event after he only had 1150 miles on the car. Took the car to the dealer the next day he went with a lawyer after a few hours at the dealer dealing with mitsu corp. he got his money back. Car was 4 days old. The only part on the car was the harness everything else was stock.

 

He now owns a new M3

 

I took the pedal completely apart last night and it is much more complicated than I originally anticipated. After further inspection, it appears that the pedal was CLEARLY engineered to break intentionally. So my question is this.....under what circumstances would you want the gas pedal to break off? I can't think of an accident scenario where this would be beneficial.

Making a CNC aluminum piece like this is more complicated than I thought, but I am still having it made. In the meantime, I have come up with a temporary fix with industrial epoxy and some metal bracing. My temporary fix is VERY strong and I doubt I will even need to use the aluminum one I am having made. There is no way this is breaking I will post pictures of all the parts and pieces later. They are on my cell phone. I was too impatient to go get my camera before I put it back together, but I think I have some decent pictures to show you all.

Why would Mitsu WANT the pedal to break?

 

If you want to attract more attention/expose Mitsu to your thread, then you will have to change the title to "Gas pedal broke for the THIRD time."

 

I originally had that in my title, but I'm sure people are sick of reading about the gas pedal. It is a piece of ****, plain and simple. Mine is now fixed permanently so I'm not too concerned about it anymore.

Now I get to enjoy the best part about the car.....driving it really hard

 

I am just waitting on guys like "boozeup&riot" and other that said its a fluke x3