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I live in Utah, The incident occurred in San Francisco with children in car. going down one of the steeper roads towards fisherman wharf. the ABS alarm went off and I lost all breaking power. I immediately downshifted(automatic trans), used the emergency break almost killed some pedestrians.. pulled over. I checked all fuses, breaks. etc. I did not have any money, so as nightfall came upon us, with ABS glaring in our ears. I drove through the night back to Utah when the traffic was the lowest and used the emergency break all the way home, it was a horrific experience. The repair on this was not cheep where I had the ABS/brakes fixed so the breaks would work at our local dealer where I live, This was about 8-10 years ago, I am still pretty upset someone cold have been killed, why would the breaks fail if the ABS fails.. this could have killed my family and/or someone else. I would have to check with Menlove Bountiful Toyota for an exact date of repair.
I was in a drive thru and as I approached the car in front of me, I pressed my brake pedal and had zero resistance as my pedal went to the floorboard and zero response from brakes. As I depressed pedal, my ABS light went on the dashboard and a beep alarmed. I tried hitting the pedal again to no avail and turned to attempt to miss the vehicle and pulled my emergency brake. I was moving at a low rate of speed and had zero history of brake system issues. After some homework online, I am seeing it is in line with a lot of other people's experiences with the same make and model having an ABS motor failure, booster motor failure, and/or an accumulator failure.
For the second time, a complete braking failure due to master cylinder motor failure. Occurred while driving. Luckily was going under 20 mph on a vacant street and was able to safely coast to a stop.
Total brake failure without warning - when the ABS and brake light came on and the buzzer sounded there were zero brakes. Just starting out in the morning. As we live on a long twisting road that is mostly downhill into town, this could have been catastrophic. Who designs a brake system that fails to zero"?"
- Napa, CA, USA
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- Bountiful, UT, USA