06 VW Caddy, momentary brake failure

sambucus

Hi All, I'm new here.
Was driving the work van this morning, on country roads in the wet. was lightly braking on an easy bend. got a fright as the pedal was hard and brakes had no effect, immediatley slowed down then brakes were fine again.
van is at 143K km and regularly serviced, do recall it having a history of rear brakes sticking in the extreme cold 2 and 3 winters ago this was fixed at the local garage.
Will be getting this looked at of course, I'm just curious and wondered if anyone has come across this problem before and what was the cause.
Am a bit of a bangernomics fiend and do most of the work on my own cars to keep them on the road a 96 peugeot 1.9 diesel at the mo. no actual mechanical skill to speak of however.

Nissan doctor

The vacume pipe to the servo is plastic on these and can split or leak at the connections causing a hard pedal.

I've had it on numerous VAG's where it can be fine but then you move the pipe a bit and it leaks.

sambucus

Nissan doctor wrote: »

The vacume pipe to the servo is plastic on these and can split or leak at the connections causing a hard pedal.

I've had it on numerous VAG's where it can be fine but then you move the pipe a bit and it leaks.

thanks ND will let you know how i get on

sambucus

The garage had the van for over a week and got a new servo and 2nd hand master cylinder fitted.
The amount of stuff that needed to come off to get the job done has put me off ever owning something like that.