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Brakes failed, Volvo: 1, tree: 0 200 1984

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posted by  matt b on  Tue Jul 6 05:03 CST 2010
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Posting for a friend...

He was backing down a very steep driveway, stepped on the brakes and the pedal went straight to the floor, no brakes. He steered into a tree.

Immediately thereafter, the brakes were back to normal, and have been since. Not low on fluid, was actually topped up two days before the incident.

I can't think of what could be intermittent about the system.

Steepness of the hill? Maybe one circuit in the master cylinder has been bad for a while, and somehow the other circuit was affected by the hill?

Brake failure light has been on for some time. 3 or 4 years I suppose.

Any thoughts?
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