Cupra brake failure

[thewiizard]

Well as the title states my brakes have just failed, typically when approaching a speed bump slightly quicker than I perhaps should have been.

Pedal felt normal for a second then went completely soft and hit the floor.

I managed to slow down enough by a quick down shift and some good ol' "E Brake". Catastrophe avoided.

A quick road side inspection did not show any signs of fluid leaking onto our around the brakes but I did find a puddle on the ground after rolling backwards from where I had stopped the car and pumped the brakes. Perhaps from literally under the fluid bottle. I'm sure some hit the exhaust as a feint whiff of smoke drifted past the headlights.

Sound familiar to anyone?

 

[truCido]

Check your brake hoses....I had something very similar coming up to a roundabout whilst travelling at 70, luckily no one was on the roundabout and I got around it.

Get someone to stand outside the car and then press the brake pedal, hopefully they'll hear something

 

[got_boost?]

sounds like a brake hose mate. most prob split.

 

[thewiizard]

Yup. Problem solved.

Brake Hose + Drive Shaft = 0 Brakes

 

[truCido]

mine was doing exactly the same, it did it twice actually on the same side so I ended up re-routing it for obvious reasons lol