While Aaron Cash’s video published on X Said to be a “35-second booster solution,” demonstrated at the “Cyber Takeover” event in Long Beach, the video begins with the required drilling jig already in place.
With it on the pedal, Tesla workers drill a hole as specified and install a rivet to secure the pedal pad so it doesn’t come loose due to an “unapproved change” during manufacturing which made it more slippery than expected.
THE Service Bulletin issued by Tesla reveals that the process has a few other required steps, including measuring “the distance between the bottom of the aluminum accelerator pedal pad and the bottom of the pedal bracket” before work begins. If the bottom of the pad is 5mm or more from the bottom of the pedal, then they are supposed to replace the entire pedal.
Once everything is finished, they’re supposed to inspect the work with a mirror and clean up any debris the process left behind in the customer’s $99,000-plus truck, which came with an unreliable gas pedal.
