Hi, I wonder if anyone could comment on this?
A few months ago the brakes suddenly stopped working on VW Golf. I pressed the brake pedal and had no response; the pedal was loose and was depressed to the floor quite easily without any sensation of the car braking. I tried the pedal several times over several hundred yards and had the same lack of result. There was no revving noise to suggest the wrong pedal was being depressed, and I had time to take my foot on and off the pedal several times to check I was pressing the right one. The brakes had previously been working, having stopped at numerous sets of traffic lights previously.
Unfortunately I ended up ploughing into a queue of vehicles at a set traffic lights and am being summonsed for driving without due care etc. The police supposedly tested the cars brakes and found no 'mechanical' failure. However, I wonder if what I experienced was some sort of partial failure due to an intermittent electrical fault. Unfortunately the car has now been scrapped as the police assured me that if I did not hear within 6 weeks I would not be prosecuted; in fact it has taken 6 months.
I am quite anxious about this, as to experience sudden brake failure was quite frightening and for my own peace of mind I'd like some explanation of what might have happened.