I got in the car today and when I went for a drive I noticed the brake pedal was hard... as if it had a lot of backpressure in it.

Then I kept on driving for a min or 2 and next thing I know it's gone. and everything works beautifully.
WTF?

 

Check your brake fluid

 

it's at the right height.

 

its normal when you pump the pedal when engine is off pedal gets hard then you start engine then is coming back to normal

 

I know that. The thing is it takes the car like 1-2 mins of driving it and braking a few times. To make it all work.

 

EVERY TIME I TURN THE CAR OFF THE BRAKES take time to get to where they are GRIPPY.

It feels like the pedal is STIFFF as HELL... therefor I don't have good braking until this problem dissappears after driving for a lil.

what a weird ISSUE.

HAS ANYONE EVER HAD THIS PROBLEM?

 

nope jk

 

Do you have rubber lines or SS lines to the brakes? Might have a swelled line causing the fluid to not flow properly until a few minutes of driving.

 

^ THAT makes SENSE. check OUT THE brake LINES. Must have SOMETHING TO DO with the BRAKE fluid.

 

yea I don't have stainless lines.

Nor have I checked the lines to see wtf may be wrong.

I guess that's where I should be looking eh?

What exactly should I be looking for?

I mean it comes back to life after driving for a little, everytime.

Could it be a bad booster or master cylinder?? or is this brake fluid related for sure?

 

K so I went to BOTH of my acura mechanics who are my buddies, and who work at different DLRs and gave them my problem. Told them how I just did the rotors and pads 2 weeks ago and they BOTH told me it is the pads in conjunction with the DBA rotors. Now that everything has bedded... etc. they just need time to heat up before everything works 100%.

Makes sense cause it goes away after I drive for a lil and do a few brakes.. each brake it progressively gets grippier.

And they both gave me the same answer without knowing I had talked to another mechanic.

It's kinda hard to point fingers at anything else since this issue literally appeared out of knowhere one morning.

And the explanation I was given (that everything has now bedded) fits the mannerism in which this problem appeared.

 

oh and it's not related to engine temp. I just took it for a drive and the brakes came to life in like 45 seconds at most and the car was still far from proper temp