Brake Hoses, Lines/piping, And Fittings Problems of Toyota Land Cruiser

While driving in the mountains of west virginia. Alarm sound, flashing lights and brake pedal unresponsive. Had to use emergency brake to stop vehicle. This happened on sept 19, 2016 with 65,596 miles on the odometer. The truck had recently been inspected sept 2, 2016 and also had the rear brake pads replaced at charles barker Toyota in virginia beach virginia. The odometer reading was 65,121. The service manager did state it was not common practice to bleed the brake lines although I did find several sites on line that said this should be done. I am retired and drive very little. After a 400 miles road trip to west virginia this happened. I feel lucky to be alive and fortunate that this occurred in a flat stretch of road. $3229. 92 later after replacing the abs system we were able to return home. Paper work available on request.

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Steel brake line running from the front to the rear of the vehicle along the driver's side frame rail rusted through near the front of the vehicle. Lost all braking, narrowly avoided a collision by swerving around a stopped vehicle and driving through an intersection where the traffic light turned red. This is the second steel hydraulic line that has rusted though on this vehicle. The first was the power steering cooler line.

My 2000 Toyota landcruiser has experience excessive undercarriage rust similar to the tundra models reported. Recently the brakes on my vehicle failed due to brake lines rusting through. When we tried to apply the emergency brake, it did not stop the vehicle since it had rusted through as well and was inoperable. Fortunately we were not driving fast as we would have no way to stop the vehicle from crashing.

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