Thursday, January 6, 2011

Brake! Brake!

Yesterday on the way home, it was raining.
There was a little bit of traffic jam leading to the PIE.
After crawling on the PIE for a while, I think after the MacPherson area, the traffic was slightly better.

I was able to drive probably at about 50 or 60 km/hr. Not very fast, because it was raining, and traffic is not exactly smooth flowing.
There was even some accidently around the Eunos stretch if I remember right, which was already clearing off.

Somewhere before that stretch, I put brake on my car, as vehicles were slowing down.
And then, something happened.
MY BRAKE IS NOT CATCHING PROPERLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn. Lucky I wasn't travelling at fast speed, and my action to try pulling the handbrake is also, well, pretty good.
Letting go my brake, and pressing it again slowly seemed to work fine again.
In fact, the brake seemed to work flawlessly again.

Well, this wasn't the first time. I think 2-3 months ago, it happened to me when entering the PIE from Tampines.
At the round-turn downhill slip road, suddenly my brake didn't work.
Again, I wasn't travelling very fast, so managed to pull the handbrake to slow down the motion in time.
In fact, that time, the shave was much closer than yesterday.
*PHEW PHEW*

So to be safe, I sent my car to be checked this morning.
Told the service agent that it happened twice that my brake didn't catch well with my car keep moving at the unintended speed.
So the service technician went test driving my car with me.

Brake here and there. Jam brake hard hard.
Everything is perfect.
He said it could be due to road condition, and it just happened at that moment it caused the brake to malfunction for a brief period.
He also checked if there's any leakage or anything.
In the end, everything turns out normal.

So I went to work with the inspected car, but need to be wary of any possible braking problem.

Oh well.
What else can I do? :P

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