Total brake failure- Seat Leon 1P
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Experienced a total brake failure today on my way into work. Thankfully was only doing about 20 so could just yank the handbrake.
No warning lights, just a solid brake pedal on the approach to a set of (red!) traffic lights.
Pulled in, engine off, hazards on, but was creating an obstruction so restarted the engine and crawled forward. Strangely, brakes appeared to be working completely fine. Crawled to work down the quiet side roads, did a couple of emergency stops and all still appears to be fine.
The ABS warning light has been on a couple of times over the last few weeks, code reader says it's rear right ABS sensor (booked in to be changed) but seems unlikely to be the cause IMO as they're supposed to fail-safe, surely?
Any ideas? Was thinking master/slave cylinder but that doesn't explain why it was fine on restarting?
No warning lights, just a solid brake pedal on the approach to a set of (red!) traffic lights.
Pulled in, engine off, hazards on, but was creating an obstruction so restarted the engine and crawled forward. Strangely, brakes appeared to be working completely fine. Crawled to work down the quiet side roads, did a couple of emergency stops and all still appears to be fine.
The ABS warning light has been on a couple of times over the last few weeks, code reader says it's rear right ABS sensor (booked in to be changed) but seems unlikely to be the cause IMO as they're supposed to fail-safe, surely?
Any ideas? Was thinking master/slave cylinder but that doesn't explain why it was fine on restarting?
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