Thread: Brake Failure
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:07 PM
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Default Re: Brake Failure

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Originally Posted by annied View Post
Ok, this is what the guys came up with. Apparently one of the nuts that hold the power wires in place, was loose. Was only about half way down. SO, that caused the power loss. Because I had the power loss, the brakes had to be re calibrated. They said they did several panic stops and engaged the ABS (which I had NOT done during my hard braking, I never got a signal for it on the dashboard), restarted it several times and it still runs fine. They seemed confident that it was a factory error and not gonna happen again. They said I was lucky it happened in a parking lot and not on the highway in the rain. I had them show me what they did where. Apparently the power died while they worked on the car, so they could find the source of the problem. I will let y'all know what happens next and it anything else comes up.
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For your satisfaction, these hybrid vehicles are tracked by Ford Motor Company. Problems such as yours create documents which are then sent to the factory and assembly location where further probing occurs.

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