Brake Master Cylinder problems of the 2005 Toyota Camry

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Camry. The contact stated that while driving at slow speeds, the brake was depressed and failed to respond, and the vehicle drove over the parking block. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact drove the vehicle to her residence. The vehicle was towed to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the brake master cylinder was leaking and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 72,000.

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Camry. The contact was attempting to brake from speeds of 5 mph however, the brakes did not engage. The contact crashed into a trailer ahead of him but was not injured. A police report was available. The vehicle was diagnosed at a local repair facility and found that the master cylinder had failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The current and failure miles were 73,000.

On 6/25/08 I stepped on the brake because there was traffic up ahead but the car didn't slow down and kept on going. I stepped on the brake harder and found that I had to hold it all the way down to just slow down. I nearly hit some cars trying to gain control of the brakes on this car. Then being very concerned I drove home slowly only using the gas pedal and slowing completely at an intersection in order to get home safely. The next day I brought the car into the Toyota dealer in torrington CT to find out what was wrong with it. They said the master cylinder was defective and needed replacement at a cost of $576. 22. My car had 67,266 miles at that time. It was fixed and has been running fine since then. I checked car complaints. Com and found others had a similar problem. I found this incident rather unusual because I have owned three Toyotas so far and never had any problems. I am posting this complaint because this defective master cylinder could have caused some very serious consequences for me and others and should be investigated further if others are also having similar problems. I doubt is the old defective cylinder is available.

Incident description: it was 3:00 pm when I have to drive to pick up my sister at 6219 sw freeway houston, TX, when I was trying to make the right turn to get in to the shopping center I found out the brake did not work, I tried to use the parking brake and it did not stop the car but slowed to 15 mph in the next entry to the shopping center make the right turn and get into the shopping center try again to get the parking brake to stop the vehicle but I couldn't. Finally get onto the sidewalk and hit the wall at the moment it was less than 5 mph, I was driving with my newborn baby nephew aboard, I panicked and I did not know what to do, yolanda gonzalez a lady that works at freydd's beauty salon call my sister and she call my husband for him to come over and help, he call joe myers since this is the first time that something like that happens to us, they give him a 1800 number for them to get the car on services, my mistake was not calling the police to report the incident since they did not said that I have to, since they ask if there was people injured , at the moment I was on shock, my husband call alex salesperson at jow myers for help, my car was new when we bought it on January 2005, with 9640 miles at the time, there was something wrong with the car, in sterling mccall Toyota services cornie the services writer let us know that the brake booster was broke and the brake master cylinder also, and that was normal, that piece is cover under warranty since it can happened anytime, how come this be possible I can understand that the door locks or something that you can control or manage but brakes how can that part break anytime?????, now the car still on repair since the brake does not feel right, I do not have a police report but I do have many witness that saw me that day, and also the towing truck that saw the car over the sidewalk and try to drive the car and saw that there was no brake at all. Today is October 3rd, the car still on joe myers waiting to be checked.