The vehicles brake line that went into the abs system was not tight enough and brake fluid leaked out resulting in the failure of the braking system. the loss of the braking system could be felt while driving, and eventually resulted in the vehicle not stopping. fortunately, no one was injured. the vehicle was new and had 185miles on it when the brakes failed.
I was driving down a side road in a parking lot with no cars in front of me and no one in back of me. suddenly the car braked and threw me forward. it scared the living daylights out of me. there was no reason why this happened. there was nothing in the road. i reported this problem to volkswagen and they had no answer and told me to disable the braking sensor which i did. i felt the need to report this issue since i felt this was a possible defect in the braking sensor. if this would have happened on a busy road i could have been hit from behind. again there was no reason for the sudden braking. this is a leased car and when i turn it in i just want to let them know that the sensor is turned off for the next person who leases it and has no idea it is turned off. in summary, i was going around 35-40 mph when this braking occurred with no reason whatsover. thank you for your time.
My wife wasdriving down a residential street no cars in front or behind. the autonomous brakes activated and brought car to full stop for no reason.
The cars breaking assistance brings the car to a complete stop at any speed. it will break when nothing is around, when backing out of driveway, driving down freeway, and pulling out onto the road.
Purchased car june 30, check engine light illuminated on way home from dealer. next day check engine light off, brake power boost failure flicker on screen, auto start/stop not functioning, restart car all gone. next trip tire pressure warning, unable to reset. had to go to an appointment and was heading to dealer on the way home, car went black, lost acceleration, no response from throttle while driving 75mph on busy freeway. had to coast across five lanes of traffic to be safe. restart car, drove to dealer. total amount of miles on car 152. purchased sunday evening 6:30 pm in repair after near collision tuesday evening 5:00 pm.
The automatic breaking sensors went off for no reason. car started breaking on it's own. luckily no car behind me. car was in motion on a 35 mph part of route 30 in indiana when it started to break suddenly. took it to the dealership and they could not replicate it. i sent volkswagen a message and they didn't reply.