Brake Master Cylinder Problems of Ford Escort

The contact owns a 1999 Ford Escort. While driving 60 mph, the brake pedal extended to the floorboard when it was depressed. The contact applied the parking brake to stop the vehicle. As a result, he crashed into the front of another vehicle. The contact was able to drive the vehicle to a mechanic and he stated that the master cylinder failed. The master cylinder was replaced and there had been no further occurrences. A police report was filed. The current and failure mileages were 100,000. Updated 01-10-08. Updated 12/31/07.

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When the brake was applied, the vehicle failed to stop which caused consumer to crash into a truck, the master cylinder was replaced. Ts.

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Ford brake engineers designed to brake effort proportioning the master cylinder to allocate 85-90% of the braking to the front wheels and only 10 to 15%to the rear wheels. This proportion is incorrect and results in the inability to stop the car under emergency braking situations. It is not possibly to lockup the rear wheels even with the brake pedal to the floor. When the front wheel break traction on slipery surfaces the car looses its ability to stop in a reasonable length. This miss allocation of braking effort resulted in a near rear end accident in 1997 and resulted recently in totalling the vehicle this April. This braking system should have been recalled years ago to correct the embalance of the braking action. I tried to bring this design problem to the attention of Ford motor company in 1995 but it fell on deaf ears. This is a real dangerous safety problem that should have been addressed.

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Brakes: intermittent brake loss, brakes failed when driving at 15mph and attempting to stop, and there were no brakes. Car has been in shop approximately five times. Last time a master cylinder was put in ,but the problem is still there.

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Consumer applied the brakes and the master cylinder failed, causing consumer to rear end the vehicle ahead.

The master cylinder was replaced 4 times.