Tiger
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Driving along to work this morning at around 40mph, came to my turning put my foot on the brake, nothing happened, pedal went straight to the floor, apart from a tiny bit of resistance at the bottom 10mm. The car just went straight on, I pulled on the handbrake and came to a stop eventually.
By a bizzarre set of circumstances my brake fluid level sensor must have stopped working within the last 3 months (the time since I had all new discs and pads all round) and then I had a epic failure on the brake banjo bolt causing my car to lose ALL of its brake fluid without the sensor detecting it, leading me to drive with just a squib of brake fluid left which I pumped out when braking for my turning!
Lucky it was 0700 otherwise the road would have been really busy!
Anyways, to cut a long story short, the garage behind my factory fixed it for £20 and must have made a better job of bleeding the brakes because they feel a lot more firm underfoot!
Near death experience of the day anyway 
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LukeS
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JM Curdy
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if you dont like having no brakes...
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willay
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^^ PMSL
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antnee
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This happened to me once, except they carried on working after 
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ajscorsa
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I imagine that being one of the worst feelings ever, going for the break and nothing happening lol. dodgy!
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Tiger
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Like I say though, bizzarre set of circumstances really, the sensor going first, which I would have no way of knowing about, then a component failure on the brakes too and nothing to say that its even happening!
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dannymccann
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Scary shit 
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Tiger
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I normally drive to work down the motorway back from my girlfriends house too, that would have been uber-dodgy! Luckily I was at my mums house so only had to drive a mile to work, and only below 40mph.
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lostboy
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Had a fun one the other day myself, after bringing my car back from the MOT station I came to a round about, slowed right down and turned to the left, not that slowing down helped as the back end went right out and sent me sliding towards two cars coming the other way.
Luckily I controlled it as I am FWD drift master 
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LukeS
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lostboy  xx
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Tiger
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quote:
Originally posted by lostboy
Had a fun one the other day myself, after bringing my car back from the MOT station I came to a round about, slowed right down and turned to the left, not that slowing down helped as the back end went right out and sent me sliding towards two cars coming the other way.
Luckily I controlled it as I am FWD drift master
What caused that then?
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lostboy
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quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
quote:
Originally posted by lostboy
Had a fun one the other day myself, after bringing my car back from the MOT station I came to a round about, slowed right down and turned to the left, not that slowing down helped as the back end went right out and sent me sliding towards two cars coming the other way.
Luckily I controlled it as I am FWD drift master
What caused that then?
Wet slippery road, plus a tyre needing renewed  forgot to check the tyres before going for an mot, my fault and could have been bad, lesson learned.
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by JM Curdy
if you dont like having no brakes...
that was the response I was thinking of the entire time i was reading his post
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sand-eel
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A brake pipe burst on me parked up once becuase the exhaust BB was hitting off the pipe, squashing it, making it weak, so when I was pressing the brake pedal for the hell of it when parked up, it burst
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Matt L
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Happened to me once bit mine was because the garage had tightened the brakes up too much so over heated and failed completely started working again after they cooled down.
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_Allan_
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Sounds like you use the same garage as Colin.
Go back and complain, you too can get a free inspection II and a nice shiny new mini PS pump. 
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sand-eel
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
Happened to me once bit mine was because the garage had tightened the brakes up too much so over heated and failed completely started working again after they cooled down.
take it they must have been rear drums?
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Ludacris Turbo
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That happened to me on the work van a few weeks ago! My arse nearly bit a hole out of the seat!
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Tiger
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
Happened to me once bit mine was because the garage had tightened the brakes up too much so over heated and failed completely started working again after they cooled down.
I had this on my old nova once, it was caused by a spilt brake cylinder seal, the brake piston wouldnt release from the disc and it got hotter and expanded and got hotter until the smoke was filling the car! I pulled over and poured cold water over the disc to shrink it and gingerly made my way home, brake cylinder repair kit fitted and job was a good 'un.
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MarkM
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Should have ran down through the gears to slow down...
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am4nf
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this happened to me not too long ago when the brake cylinder burst, ver near shat maself, luckil was in a built up area with no other cars about
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Matt L
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
Happened to me once bit mine was because the garage had tightened the brakes up too much so over heated and failed completely started working again after they cooled down.
take it they must have been rear drums?
Yeh was on the corsa so was the rear drums, took it bak the day after and got it sorted.
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Tiger
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quote:
Originally posted by MarkM
Should have ran down through the gears to slow down...
Could have done but at 40mph i would only just be in third gear.
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am4nf
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plus if its ever happened to you before you wuoldnt just go oh no brakes il saunter through the gears to slow myself down
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