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Originally Posted by jbach36
Put it into forward, down the short (maybe 30 yards) and very gently sloping road to the 4 way stop sign. I hit the brakes, and the pedal was hard. The brakes were braking some, but not stopping the car!! I pushed harder, but I don't think the pedal went down anymore; it was just a hard pedal (not soft and going to the floor). The harder I pushed, made no difference in the stopping ability. I overshot the stop sign by 8 feet. I could have killed someone!
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Just one question to clarify the picture: after you sensed that the brakes were not working properly did you hit the emergency brake???
I ask this because once I was driving a CL 600 (1997 V12) which lost complete brake power as I was approaching a 45° curve at about 60 m.p.h. on a two lane road. The brake pedal went to the floor (found out later the system had a severe leak). I inmediantly slammed the emergency brake and the monster stopped well before the turn started. No panic.