They are recalling ALL the right hand drive ones because you can activate the brakes from the passenger side... no not by snaking your foot into the driver's footwell, no by just pressing hard on the carpet in front of you where the pedal used to be on a left hand drive car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watch the video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13447395

Has our Yetis had any recalls? I don't think so. Well mine has not anyway

Wow! Don't know anyone, but wow, that is really awful piece of design, good thing no accident has happened!

Might be good for driving instructors though!

I seem to recall a similar fault affecting the VW Variant (and that is really showing my age!)

Surely this is an added safety feature?

with certain peoples driving I would be do emergency stops all the time if I was a front passenger

So only supply C3 to people who aren't very good at driving......no I'm not going there

I seem to recall a similar fault affecting the VW Variant (and that is really showing my age!)

Me, too, we must be the same generation! It was also caused by the remnants of the RHD brake mechanism being left in place when converting. Some Beatles also had it!

Phil

I seem to recall a similar fault affecting the VW Variant (and that is really showing my age!)

This has happened before.(Showing my age too)

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Wasn't it the original RHD golf that accelerated when you pressed the floor?

I also remember as a student, even longer ago , driving a citroen Ami from the left seat,by pressing on the floor.We just thought it a huge laugh then. (No health and safety , etc.)

It is not so much a poor design as most cars that are built mostly in lhd tend to run a cross beam to save the expense of moving the servo etc, the problem comes when it only has a piece of card over it, the recall will be a metal cover as a guess.

Edited 20 May, 201115 yr by wayned