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SO I was doing a favor for my giant brother today. He needed an eye exam and asked if Id drive him the over hour drive. So being the nice feller I am, said sure. So everything was going GREAT on the way there, then we got about 10 minutes away from the place when it happened. The light turned red, and the intersection filled when my brakes blew out. I was still slowing down and pow, to the floor and now Im speeding to the intersection. I barely miss a school bus, cut off like 3 or 4 cars and end up on the side of the road.

Brake fluid was just puking out from everywhere. So I got to drive 30mph using the neutral and Ebrake to stop my car. It took nearly twice as long to get home, and found out that I blew out 3 of the 4 brake lines somehow. Id suggest foul play, but the lines were severely rotted in this one spot, that oddly enough had the 3 lines strapped to it. So yea, I get to wake up bright and early, and help the old man fix the bloody thing. HURRAY!


Rant over, I feel better thanks DAKKA

Wow that sucks.

Still, its good you didnt get cleaned up by said bus!

Look at it this way. Luckily you are a good enough driver to miss the surrounding traffic and it isnt too horrible a fix.Sucks your car did that to ya though.

I blame my toilet for the car problem though. I know that sounds incredibly friggin weird, but Im telling ya. Ive had trouble with my toilet, and just yesterday I finally fixed the bugger. And SUDDENLY my brakes fail? Call the ghost busters.


Also thanks, Im a pretty good driver. I used to drift in my astrovan during the winter months. I got pretty damn good at it

That's scary gak, glad to see your ok.

Who said goofin off in a parking lot full of ice served no purpose!

KingCracker wrote:
Also thanks, Im a pretty good driver. I used to drift in my astrovan during the winter months. I got pretty damn good at it

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KingCracker wrote:SO I was doing a favor for my giant brother today. He needed an eye exam and asked if Id drive him the over hour drive. So being the nice feller I am, said sure. So everything was going GREAT on the way there, then we got about 10 minutes away from the place when it happened. The light turned red, and the intersection filled when my brakes blew out. I was still slowing down and pow, to the floor and now Im speeding to the intersection. I barely miss a school bus, cut off like 3 or 4 cars and end up on the side of the road.

Brake fluid was just puking out from everywhere. So I got to drive 30mph using the neutral and Ebrake to stop my car. It took nearly twice as long to get home, and found out that I blew out 3 of the 4 brake lines somehow. Id suggest foul play, but the lines were severely rotted in this one spot, that oddly enough had the 3 lines strapped to it. So yea, I get to wake up bright and early, and help the old man fix the bloody thing. HURRAY!


Rant over, I feel better thanks DAKKA

JUst remember at least its not a robin reliant

Seriously that video made me laugh something fierce. Who the hell thought that pile o junk up





Yea drifting in an astro van on winter roads IS awesome. My brother used to live in rather twisty/turny trailer park and MAN that was alot of fun in there. I could slide sideways from one stop sign to another in perfect pro drifter style. Keep in mind rather then going like 50+ Id be hitting break neck speeds of like 10

Something very similar happened to me once. I was driving home from my friends house, I was driving down his dirt road, and once I got to the stop sign that meets the highway, bam, my brakes broke. I had to put it into a ditch in order to miss being smeared by a semi. The funny thing is that I had brought it into the shop several times complaining about the brakes and they said they are fine. I brought it into that shop and tore that mechanic a new one.

Never had my car fail on me, though my better judgement has been known to fail on occasion

That musta made the ol' nether regions clench tighter than Ebeneezer on his last penny.

That does suck though, as really brake lines aren't one of those things you tend to check as a matter of course. You weren't losing fluid through a slow leak as a warning?

That does remind me that I need to bleed my brakes. They're definitely due.

Well Im actually lucky that Im one of those people that react, rather then panic. But I did notice that afterwards I was practically standing in the seat lol.

Nope no warning, just pop. But we found out that the guy that had the car before me, for some ODD reason, zip tied all 4 lines together in one spot. And from that, it rusted heavily right there. Im guessing the tie was rubbing on the lines as well, because thats where they failed. The 3 split right there, and the 4th has a pin hole, hence the reason for no brakes.

But all is well now

Yeah something similar happened to me my cars tranmission decided to go back to neutral while I was taking a corner, so when I punched the gas all I got was extremely high rev response and I made the turn kinda wide and smashed into a car coming at me head on. I was luckily only in the other lane by a couple feet but still lots of damage but I was only doing like 30 the other car 15 neither of us got hurt.