Brake Fluid Leak Problems of Saturn SKY

I bought this car (2008 Saturn Sky redline, automatic, build date 7/07) used from a personal owner on 3/15/2014 with 56,607 miles on it. After leaving it in my garage overnight I started the car and proceeded to drive out of my garage. At the end of my short driveway I applied the brake pedal to stop before I turned onto my street. The brake pedal did a series of pulsations and went almost to the floorboard without stopping the car. The car continued into the street before I could get it stopped. At first I thought I had a bad master cylinder or a brake fluid leak but as I continued on slowly I eventually got a full brake pedal and the car stopped every time as normal from then on. After getting home I researched my problem and found that many 2008 Sky redlines were experiencing the same problem. Evidently gm made a change on some of the 2008(only) redlines braking system by omitting a "vacuum assist pump" or something like that. Gm changed the brake system back to include this pump in the 2009 model's. The brake problem on this car, and other 2008's, is extremely dangerous. I was not warned of this condition from the seller, which is not gm's fault, but these affected cars should be recalled and equipped with the regular braking system as on the 2007 or 2009 Sky redlines. I also found out that there was a sticker on the outside of the dash from gm on "some" of the new 2008 cars telling of this type of system and what to do. . . . But it was just a sticker the new owner pulled off as it was not meant to be permanent. By placing these stickers on the new cars gm knew there was a negative, possibly fatal, aspect to this braking system. They did nothing to correct it on the affected cars but did change it the next model year because of owner complaints I'm sure.

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