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Friends: 0 | Sometimes when I'm in reverse, the brakes work smoothly. However, once in a while the brakes act extremely 'jerky' when I am backing up. Am I the only one and can someone explain this |
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Friends: 2 | No, you're not the only one. I had this happen to me just recently. I was backing out of a tight area, and I noticed my brakes were particularly grippy. Not sure what to make of that either, but I felt kind of silly backing out so jerkily with several other people around waiting for my spot! |
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I think the same thing has happened to me, on 2 occasions. I just tapped the brake lightly and came to a very abrupt stop when backing up slowly. In every other instance, backing up seemed normal. I have no idea why it happened. | |
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Friends: 0 | I've experienced this as well. At first I thought it was occurring when I was backing out of a driveway that was downhill while backing up. Tonight it occurred on what I believe was a level driveway. If tonight's driveway had any incline, it was VERY slight. |
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Friends: 0 | I doubt that it has to do with the slope. In both cases that it happened with me, it was backing out of my driveway. Then there have been dozens of times backing out when it didn't happen. |
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Friends: 3 | Someone in another thread had a solution that I tried and it worked: when this occurs push 'park' button, pump brakes hard a few times and then get back into reverse w/o jerky problem. Thanks who ever you were! |
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Friends: 0 | Yup, happened to me several times. No matter how light I was on the brake pedal, it jerked. Thanx for the cure--can't wait to try it. |
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Friends: 1 | Had that happed to me too. I'm beginning to think that it happens when you put the car in reverse without your foot on the brake first or while in park without your foot on the brake first. Put your foot firmly on the breake and then shift to reverse and you should be okay each time every time. |
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Friends: 3 | I've had this happen to me in the forward motion as well. |
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Friends: 0 | It is very unnerving when the brakes grab so tightly. It has happened to me several times on both a sloped driveway and flat ground. Pushing P and pumping the brakes a few times seems like an unsafe way to solve this issue. If you are on a slope pumping only makes you jerk down the hill and look like a idiot. Last night it happened as I was pulling out of a parking space at Sonic. As luck would have it, there was a group of men just hanging out a couple of spaces down from mine. I got some really odd looks from the entire group. This is not the type of public exposure the G3 needs. No one would buy one after seeing it jerk backwards like that. Has anyone contacted Toyota or their dealer report this problem? |
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| Thanked by: | dave77 (08-26-2009) |
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