Wjmyazi
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- Margo
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Hi all, kind of a long one but I really need some help here. I got into a pretty bad accident 3 days ago. 2018 SI Coupe, about 60k miles.
I was driving to a track day in Washington, cruise control set to 75 in a 70, right lane on a 2 lane highway, and I was about to get into the left lane to pass someone.
I left cruise control on to change lanes, and then went to turn it off as I was about to speed up to pass, and cruise wouldn't turn off. I go to hit the brake to disable it, and nothing happened. Again I hit the cancel button a million times and I saw the car in front of me was starting to brake noticeably quickly, so I hit my brakes and they were completely soft, no resistance and no braking at all.
To avoid hitting the car in front since the car was stuck at 75 I went into the right lane, but the car I was trying to pass was still there, and I didn't have enough room, so I had to swerve the car and kick out the rear end to get myself to not hit them, and I counter steered to start going straight again, the car was still accelerating, and I ended up losing it and going into a guard rail at 75mph.
This all sounds like it took a while but was in the span of maybe 10 seconds, by the time I realized I had no brakes, I had no time to downshift, and no shoulder on the left to pull into, wall on one side and guard rail on the other.
I can't imagine how my brakes could randomly fail like that. I wasn't driving hard before that, I had my brakes inspected and the brake fluid changed at a shop a few months before then, and I had some multiple track days and autocross after the maintenance, with no issues at all.
Geico is declaring me at fault for this, because "I swerved on the highway" and they can't prove my brakes failed. I'm gonna have the inspection people take a look at my brakes and try and find the root cause, because this is completely out of nowhere.
Anyway, to my question, has anyone heard or experience a total brake failure/cruise failure like this on these cars? Is there anything I could do to find out how this happened?
Pics of the car to show you how bad the accident was. I'm somehow unharmed, but this is a Honda after all and the ACE frame saved my ass.
I was driving to a track day in Washington, cruise control set to 75 in a 70, right lane on a 2 lane highway, and I was about to get into the left lane to pass someone.
I left cruise control on to change lanes, and then went to turn it off as I was about to speed up to pass, and cruise wouldn't turn off. I go to hit the brake to disable it, and nothing happened. Again I hit the cancel button a million times and I saw the car in front of me was starting to brake noticeably quickly, so I hit my brakes and they were completely soft, no resistance and no braking at all.
To avoid hitting the car in front since the car was stuck at 75 I went into the right lane, but the car I was trying to pass was still there, and I didn't have enough room, so I had to swerve the car and kick out the rear end to get myself to not hit them, and I counter steered to start going straight again, the car was still accelerating, and I ended up losing it and going into a guard rail at 75mph.
This all sounds like it took a while but was in the span of maybe 10 seconds, by the time I realized I had no brakes, I had no time to downshift, and no shoulder on the left to pull into, wall on one side and guard rail on the other.
I can't imagine how my brakes could randomly fail like that. I wasn't driving hard before that, I had my brakes inspected and the brake fluid changed at a shop a few months before then, and I had some multiple track days and autocross after the maintenance, with no issues at all.
Geico is declaring me at fault for this, because "I swerved on the highway" and they can't prove my brakes failed. I'm gonna have the inspection people take a look at my brakes and try and find the root cause, because this is completely out of nowhere.
Anyway, to my question, has anyone heard or experience a total brake failure/cruise failure like this on these cars? Is there anything I could do to find out how this happened?
Pics of the car to show you how bad the accident was. I'm somehow unharmed, but this is a Honda after all and the ACE frame saved my ass.