weird problem with brakes !
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weird problem with brakes !
does anyone else have this problem or know what this is. Sometimes after i park and come back to my car later i try to press the brakes and they are very hard to depress. With a lot of force I can still depress them and hit the push start but I know this is not normal. The dealership said they never have heard of this problem. Does anyone know what this is.
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does anyone else have this problem or know what this is. Sometimes after i park and come back to my car later i try to press the brakes and they are very hard to depress. With a lot of force I can still depress them and hit the push start but I know this is not normal. The dealership said they never have heard of this problem. Does anyone know what this is.
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I had a problem where once I shut off the car, the brake pedal would firm up automatically, the same way it would if you pump it after shutting the car off. I had a brake booster leak.
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Whats likely happening with OP's car is a small brake booster leak. It won't be noticable while you are driving, but if you let the car sit overnight, all the vacuum leaks out slowly and you will have a very firm pedal in the morning.
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You totally lost me..loss of vacuum leads to loss of boost (agree), which means you need more pedal pressure/greater pedal travel to stop which equals a firmer pedal ????? Maybe the difference in opinion is just a semantic issue. Either way..I lost my vac assist motor in reverse...and mushy pedal traveled to the floor (where it became firm at the end of its travel) and car continued to travel lazily backwards and up onto a berm...Yay no damage.
Vac assist motor replaced, no more problems. Pedal was like stepping on marshmallows, not on a brick. OP says pedal was firm (at top of travel arc i assume).
Vac assist motor replaced, no more problems. Pedal was like stepping on marshmallows, not on a brick. OP says pedal was firm (at top of travel arc i assume).
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