Pedal travel audit system

1. A method of auditing a brake system of a vehicle, wherein said vehicle includes a translatable brake pedal, and a remaining fixed structure spaced from the pedal, said method comprising the steps of:

a. securing first and second sensors in a fixed position relative to the pedal and spacing the second sensor from the structure, wherein the first sensor is configured to measure a force applied to the pedal, and the second sensor is configured to detect a relative distance between the pedal and structure;

b. applying a plurality of differing forces to the first sensor, wherein each force causes the pedal to translate a correlative differing distance, so as to determine a plurality of correlative distances, and force/distance combinations;

c. measuring said plurality of forces with the first sensor, and detecting said plurality of correlative distances with the second sensor;

d. generating a trend based on the pluralities of forces and distances; and

e. comparing the trend to a reference, so as to determine a compliance status.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 ,

steps (a) through (d) further including the steps of determining an initial no-force relative distance prior to applying the force, an actual pedal displacement based on the initial and applied-force distances, for each of the plurality of forces, so as to determine a plurality of displacements, and generating a line-graph based on the pluralities of forces and displacements.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said reference includes a preferred force/distance matrix.