So, this week, Tuesday night my brakes fail. As in caput, adios, ciao, brake to floor = nada.
In a nutshell, I was at a stop light, the brake pedal went to the floor with little or no resistance. I limped my way to a friends house a mile away with the last 3% of braking and judicious use of the handbrake. (p.s. This is why cars with foot actuated parking brakes suck, had I been in a G35 I would have been stuck).
Over the course of the next hour or so more fluid leaks out (gravity works after all) and the brakes are finite. Zilch. Zip. Nothing there, just a soft floppy pedal.
As it turns out the brake fluid was coming out of the right rear brake line where it connected to caliper. It might be that the copper crush washers were squished too much (check out the link to the pics below, you decide), maybe its because there was flashing/uneven surface left over on the caliper from the powder coating, or who knows, maybe the line is somehow magically bad and is leaking fluid through its sidewall.
I dropped the car off at another shop, one that specializes in Vipers and race cars, so hopefully they have the competence to fix it.
A Gallery of Brake Failure Pictures!
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Totally horrendous. If a shop sratched up my paint, I'd be pissed. If a shop forgot to put in a part the I told them to put in, I'd be miffed. If a shop did a half-ass job, I'd be irritated. But if they returned the car in such a condition that it could KILL ME, I'd demand blood.
If anything, I would single-handedly attempt to utterly destroy their reputation and business on every on-line bulletin board I can find. Losing your brakes is completely unacceptable. Furthermore, their ignorance at determining a solution is irrelavent. They broke it, they fix it. ARGH!! It makes me angry hearing this story!
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