Prang :'(

[98vtir]

Looks like someone's going to get sued. The mechanic would have his own insurance to cover mistakes like that. Have a chat with him.

Ahh true, I had a chat with him yesterday and told him what I knew. He was pretty good about it and just said let him know what they find. It might be why it's been over a week and the repairs haven't even started on my car yet...

This was EXACTLY what happened to me way back in 2000, in my DA1 Integra!

I felt the pedal getting spongy the day before, but didn't think much of it. Then as I was driving along, came to a roundabout at about 50km/h, pressed brakes, felt the normal resistance, then suddenly the pedal lost all resistance and shot straight to the floor. I nearly shat myself.

Luckily the roundabout have very little traffic. I flipped on the hazard lights, pulled the handbrake hard and pulled over to the side. That was bloody lucky. Because I was about to go on the freeway. If I had lost brakes at 100/km/h... Well I would probably be dead.

Tow truck came. My mechanic was at a loss because the brake master cylinder and booster were fine. Then he found that the front tyre had rubbed through the brake hose because some noob mechanic has mangled the hose mounts on the front shock absorber when the shock was replaced by the car's previous owner.

So for others reading, this problem is not a one-off. Check your cars.

Wow that could have been very very bad. I know my accident could have been way worse; I was on the freeway in peak hour traffic and the flow had started to slow right down hence the heavy braking. At least it wasn't a school crossing or something like that.

My invoice for repairs is in my car but I recall my driveshafts got tightened or something. Do they need to do anything with the brake hoses or the bracket to do anything to them? I probably should just read the service manual haha.

[dinorider]

My invoice for repairs is in my car but I recall my driveshafts got tightened or something. Do they need to do anything with the brake hoses or the bracket to do anything to them? I probably should just read the service manual haha.

Could be that the brackets for the brake hose were accidentally pushed or bent to the side by whoever was messing around the wheel well.

Or maybe you drove over some big/heavy debris one day and the crap shot up into the wheel well, clanged around abit, and knocked the brake hoses into contact with the tyre.

[98vtir]

oh ok, I'll find out soon enough! I definately didn't drive over anything, I make it a point to avoid debris since I've become unstuck numerous times due to the ride height...

Thanks for the input everyone

[Alexplicit]

feel your pain man hope everything works out and your not too out of pocket!

and to who posted ABS should be a fail safe unit. if they were failsafe, there wouldnt be an ABS light :P

[vinnY]

ironically when abs does fail it deactivates the pump and you have brakes as per normal