My car tried to kill me!
06-09-2009, 01:59 AM
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My car tried to kill me!
Wasup fellow acuraziner!
Last week while driving around in Koreatown, my car's brakes stopped working out of no where! I was cruzin around 35 mph on surface streets when the car infront was stopping at a red light. When I went to stop, the pressure for my brake were gone, it felt like a clutch. So I had to down shift and apply the emergency brake. When I came to a complete stop, I started to pump the brake and it felt like the pressure was building right back up, so I shrugged it off and proceeded on my way. But when it came time to stop again the brakes when out again and this time I almost hit a Benz and a Bus almost plowed into me, when I changed lanes to avoid the collision. I pulled off into a parking lot and looked under my car and I saw a big puddle of brake fluid just spilling out!
My question is how could of this happened all of a sudden when I never touched the brake?
Last week while driving around in Koreatown, my car's brakes stopped working out of no where! I was cruzin around 35 mph on surface streets when the car infront was stopping at a red light. When I went to stop, the pressure for my brake were gone, it felt like a clutch. So I had to down shift and apply the emergency brake. When I came to a complete stop, I started to pump the brake and it felt like the pressure was building right back up, so I shrugged it off and proceeded on my way. But when it came time to stop again the brakes when out again and this time I almost hit a Benz and a Bus almost plowed into me, when I changed lanes to avoid the collision. I pulled off into a parking lot and looked under my car and I saw a big puddle of brake fluid just spilling out!
My question is how could of this happened all of a sudden when I never touched the brake?
Was the line cut?
06-09-2009, 05:33 AM
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check all the rubber brake lines for failure as said, a rock can tear one or age and high pressures can burst it
SS lines dont have that issue
check the calipers for seal leak
check master cylinder for failure-leak from its plastic fluid res.
Where is the fluid coming from? near a wheel ?
You should have seen a red light `BRAKES` on the dash as soon as there was a loss of pressure, If one caliper fails the system is designed to operate off 1 front and 1 opposite side rear wheel- to be able to stop the car
Of course there must be fluid in the system for it to work
Lesson to all- if brakes give you any problem- stop-inspect- have towed- DO NOT DRIVE
Is it the full moon causing this type of event?
SS lines dont have that issue
check the calipers for seal leak
check master cylinder for failure-leak from its plastic fluid res.
Where is the fluid coming from? near a wheel ?
You should have seen a red light `BRAKES` on the dash as soon as there was a loss of pressure, If one caliper fails the system is designed to operate off 1 front and 1 opposite side rear wheel- to be able to stop the car
Of course there must be fluid in the system for it to work
Lesson to all- if brakes give you any problem- stop-inspect- have towed- DO NOT DRIVE
Is it the full moon causing this type of event?
06-09-2009, 12:17 PM
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Traded in my
x3 Too bad I'm a poor college kid..
check all the rubber brake lines for failure as said, a rock can tear one or age and high pressures can burst it
SS lines dont have that issue
check the calipers for seal leak
check master cylinder for failure-leak from its plastic fluid res.
Where is the fluid coming from? near a wheel ?
You should have seen a red light `BRAKES` on the dash as soon as there was a loss of pressure, If one caliper fails the system is designed to operate off 1 front and 1 opposite side rear wheel- to be able to stop the car
Of course there must be fluid in the system for it to work
Lesson to all- if brakes give you any problem- stop-inspect- have towed- DO NOT DRIVE
Is it the full moon causing this type of event?
SS lines dont have that issue
check the calipers for seal leak
check master cylinder for failure-leak from its plastic fluid res.
Where is the fluid coming from? near a wheel ?
You should have seen a red light `BRAKES` on the dash as soon as there was a loss of pressure, If one caliper fails the system is designed to operate off 1 front and 1 opposite side rear wheel- to be able to stop the car
Of course there must be fluid in the system for it to work
Lesson to all- if brakes give you any problem- stop-inspect- have towed- DO NOT DRIVE
Is it the full moon causing this type of event?
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06-09-2009, 12:26 PM
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How is it possible??? Easy something broke like a brake line.
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