please check your brakes

[traveler]

Ok...I need some help to determine if what happens is normal.....when you are sitting with the car running and in park, or in drive...if you sit, apply constant, firm pressure to the brake pedal, and hold it in the brake continues to depress. If you pump the brake pedal, the brake pedal rises. If you apply the pressure again, and hold the brake pedal down, it continues to depress....not all the way down, but down enough that it can be pumped back up.

I took the car to the dealer...they said they replaced some part to do with the ABS system and could not change what the pedal does. They said they contacted Ford and were told it was normal....it does NOT seem normal to me....

Mine is a 2002....I do not remember this happening before and have never experienced this with another car unless there was a leak or a problem with the master cylinder.....

Anyone with ideas here???

[FEsTbird]

Re: please check your brakes

It happens on my 2003--very, very slowly. If the pressure on the brake is just enough to hold your position, it does not seem to happen noticeably.

[Gregg]

Re: please check your brakes

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[Ediron]

Re: please check your brakes

Any Ford product I owned did the same thing.You do have to apply pressure for it to happen.I never had a problem stopping even in hard braking.I also wondered about this.

[HKS]

Re: please check your brakes

Same here for my 2002. Ford replaced the master cylinder. It made no difference that I could tell. I just have to live with it.

HKS

Ok...I need some help to determine if what happens is normal.....when you are sitting with the car running and in park, or in drive...if you sit, apply constant, firm pressure to the brake pedal, and hold it in the brake continues to depress. If you pump the brake pedal, the brake pedal rises. If you apply the pressure again, and hold the brake pedal down, it continues to depress....not all the way down, but down enough that it can be pumped back up.

I took the car to the dealer...they said they replaced some part to do with the ABS system and could not change what the pedal does. They said they contacted Ford and were told it was normal....it does NOT seem normal to me....

Mine is a 2002....I do not remember this happening before and have never experienced this with another car unless there was a leak or a problem with the master cylinder.....

Anyone with ideas here???

[NEW_BYRD]

Re: please check your brakes

Same happens to me too once and a while and I have not done anything about it. The only thing I did to my car concerning the ABS was replaced a censor because the ABS light on the dash wouldn't shut off but that's about it!

[Ediron]

Re: please check your brakes

As I stated above my three Bronco's (88,90,93) '00 Sable ,02 Lincoln all did it.

[SKIPIFE]

Re: please check your brakes

Our 03 does it too Deb.