Brake Hoses, Lines/piping, And Fittings Problems of Toyota Prius

At 41,000 the vehicle per a goodyear dealer advised that my front brakes were metal on metal. The caliber was also frozen and the brake line was leaking. The car was at the dealership on 3/7/19 with no mention of a need for repairs to the front brakes. Is there a general problem with bad brakes on Toyota vehicles?.

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I am entering this complaint based on reading dozens of accounts that resemble my issue exactly. Ten minutes into a forty minute drive three lights suddenly came on, the brake, abs and traction control lights. The brakes immediately became soft, requiring 50-60% more effort to stop the car and drastically reduced stopping time. This occurred on a dark county road, after a light snowfall and temperatures in the mid-20's. I quickly pulled into a church parking lot to check the brake fluid level and for any broken brake lines. I also shut off the car hoping to clear the error, which it did not. Fluid levels looked normal and I decided to proceed the remaining 25 miles of my drive after ensuring that I could stop as needed. After 20 minutes of driving 45-55mph the lights turned off and braking power was instantly restored to 100%. I have not taken my car into the dealer yet, but plan on notifying them.

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Car in two accidents over two years body was not properly welded back to the frame! brakes were not properly realigned neither was the steering column transmission bands were not operating and would not shift and numerous other parts for leakage from brake lines to transmission lines all lines were broken and so are the seals on them!.

In January 2012, I purchased a new 2011 Prius iii because I commute roughly 90 miles per day between home and school. Thinking this was the optimal vehicle I didn't think twice when signing on the line. This was my first new vehicle, and to be honest I had heard nothing but great things about Toyota & thought I was going crazy when I started having issues with my brakes. Prior to owning this vehicle I own a Subaru impreza sport that we had traded due to poor maintenance from the dealership, who didn't know how to balance the awd system & put a hole in my brake line. Being the my prior car had brake issues I denied the fact that my brand new car could have them as well. The issue is that anytime you hit ice, pot holes, gravel road, wet roads, bumpy roads etc, you lose control of the brakes. It feels as if they slip/accelerate and leave you in a moment of panic because it's not always a situation you can avoid. My car has been to the shop three times over the issue with a complaint on my braking system, and apparently this is a very known problem from Toyota. It took my dealership 3 complaints before they consulted their Prius tech, and basically printed off a paper with every complaint I listed above with no solution. They told us to call the Toyota care number, which has been a problem in itself. When my father spoke to the Toyota customer service on Wednesday they said they had to allow them three days to illicit a response to the complaint. Keep I'm mind that the three days falls onto a Saturday, and they therefore won't owe us a response until Monday, quite frankly they won't have a solution to this issue, and they will continue to let their consumers drive around with brake issues that have put not only me but others as well into numerous dangerous driving situations.

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Recently, I performed a routine flush of the brake fluid on my Toyota Prius. When I started the Prius after completing the brake fluid flush, there were warning lights showing on the dashboard for the brakes, the traction control system, and the anti-lock brake system. This didn't surprise me that the car detected an abnormality during the brake bleeding operation. What did surprise me is that the Prius computer instructed the front brakes to become non-operational the trouble code in the Prius computer automatically disabled the front brakes because the computer was confused by the varying pressures present in the brake lines during a routine brake fluid flush. I drove to a repair shop with only the rear brakes operational. At the repair shop, a technician cleared the trouble codes for the brake system stored in the electronic control module of the Prius. The brakes were then completely operational. I find it unconscionable that the car could decide on it's own to disable the brakes, even when the brakes were otherwise fully functional. Please require Toyota to program their control modules to allow the brakes to function when trouble codes are activated.

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