Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Should my car have a rubber accelerator pedal cover?

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

I figured it never had one. Half the reason I wrote the email was a poking fun at low mileage cars, meanwhile I drive mine so much that the pedal rubber falls off. ;-) But I would get an accelerator cover if one existed! :-)

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 1:43 PM Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com> wrote:

Matt,

 

Neither of my 308s (1981 GTSi & 1983 QV) ever had rubber on the go pedal and I’ve never seen a 308 that does.    

 

Back in the day, I changed my pedals over to Hill Engineering drilled pedals.

 

Cheers,

 

Gary

 

2007 F430

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+gary=garyreedsales.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Matt Boyd
Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 10:37 AM
To: Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] Should my car have a rubber accelerator pedal cover?

 

Watching recent auctions of nearly 20 year old cars with less than 5k miles, I recall when I bought my 12 year old 308 in 1997 with fairly high mileage at the time (37,000) miles. Well this weekend I made it to almost 113,000 miles and noted with interest that the rubber pedal cover for my clutch pedal had fallen to the floor and is kind of disintegrated. So I'd like to replace it, but my question is, should the accelerator pedal have one too? At 37,000 miles my car didn't, but maybe that's because the previous owner pushed it harder and more often in 37k miles than I have on the clutch pedal for 113k miles? ;-)

 

-matt

85 euro 308