Brake Light On problems of the 2004 Toyota 4Runner

Abs, vsb trac on/off, and brake lights come on suddenly along with continuous high-pitched alert. Brakes eventually become difficult to work. Had towed to dealer, by the time dealer looked at, it wasn't happening and they could find nothing wrong. Picked up car, happened again on way home (both times making right hand turns). I am told this may be an electronic problem but regardless, to fix it, it will cost thousands of dollars ($4500 first quote) and requiring replacement of a number of parts/an entire assembly: brake booster/accumulator/master cylinder assembly. Besides the dangerous condition, don't understand why is built such that so much would have to be replaced and cost so much. Prior to this, seemed to have had more than usual problem with brakes, with multiple frozen calipers for example.

While driving, an alarm began sounding and the brake light, asb light and vsc lights all came on, we stopped and checked the brake fluid and found it was full. We then continued to drive home. Within 2 miles the brakes went out. There had been absolutely no indication of anything wrong up to that point. It is a miracle that we were not in an accident.

Driving on the interstate in north carolina vsc light turned on, tsc light turned on, abs light turned on, brake light turned on. Car was drivable for a short period of time then braking became extremely difficult. Limped home with my 3 year old in her car seat and luckily was able to do so without incident as given time of day and locaiton from home, very light traffic made travel possible. Several times though I contemplated stopping and calling a tow service. Took the car to the dealer, it's a $3000 part the abs module and $700 installation price.

1. ) 4runner sat for 10-15 minutes with radio on (not running) (battery tested good/700, 701, 691 our of 75 CA) 2. ) 4runner would not start, battery issue, and was subsequently jumped. 3. ) drove 4runner 10 minutes, parked, tuned off and started back up just fine. 4. ) 4runner sat for 3 hours, started 4runner, buzzer/warning sound emitted and brake and abs light were on. 5. ) tried disconnecting battery to see if system would reset after speaking to Toyota dealer to no avail. 6. ) backed 4runner out of parking spot, lights and buzzer still in effect, and 4runner had no breaks. 7. ) took 4runner to dealer, dealer cleared codes, battery test, reset brake system, test drove, all worked. 8. ) drove 4runner approximately 10-11 miles, hit brakes, brakes failed, abs and brake light on, warning/buzzer sound, crash - no fatalities. 9. ) codes from dealer c1223, c1251, c1256; brake fluid level good. 10. ) dealer replaced abs and master cylinder. $3,356 repair cost. 11. ) dealer (from multiple dealers in the orlando, FL msa) indicated this is a common occurrence and only by unacceptable odds do you avoid crash, death or serious injury. 12. ) Toyota has no safeguards for early indication problem could or may occur. 13. ) Toyota has no maintenance specifications for preventing or recognizing a possible fatal malfunction in the braking system. 14. ) Toyota has no economical solution to resolve/replace the abs pump/master cylinder and is in the top 5 most expensive parts of the vehicle. 15. ) Toyota has received multiple reports from orlando, FL msa dealers from what I am told and has disregarded, neglected, refused, declined to address.

I started my vehicle @ 3pm when I got off work as soon as it started the vsc, abs and brake light came on as well as a alarm in the dash. I also noticed the clock in the dash said 1:00 instead of 3:00. When I depressed the brake I had virtually no brakes. I have read up on this and found that a bad ground cable on the battery can send a low voltage signal to the cars computer and shut down the brake system. I think this needs recall!.

Driving to coral gables at around 20 mph, all of sudden four lights comes on and loud beeping noise. Vsc, trac off, abs & brake lights on at the same time, brake peddle is hard and no brakes at all. I had to go into neutral try the emergency brake to try and stop and pull over, I had to tow my truck home, I call the Toyota dealer they told me they I need to replace the complete brake master cylinder assembly costing $2600. 00.

The evening of 8/10/11 as I was leaving work, I turned the vehicle on and a high pitched alarm-type sound started; vsc light, brake lights came on. At this point, I asked a near by supervisor to take a look at the vehicle; upon inspection he did not find anything out of place. He test drove the vehicle around a couple of parking spaces as I watched. He stopped the vehicle and asked if I had been having brake issues. He then asked me to test it to see if my brakes normally responded as they did with him. When I got into the vehicle to test drive, I also went across a few parking spaces but when I got ready to brake, the brakes totally failed. The curb of the end parking space stopped the vehicle, it came to rest and the truck was later towed to Toyota dealership. On 8/11/11, Toyota dealership called me and stated that the skid control actuator/ecu assembly needed to be replaced which would cost $3,000.