Mazda 3 2007 120K.
Purchased Oct 2014. 3rd owner, car in great shape. Coming to a stop sign this morning, in a 25MPH zone, heard a clunk and felt a pedal drop about 25% as I can to a complete stop. Pedal used to be nice and firm, now uses about 50%. Also occurred is a grinding sound on the rotors. Drove the car a mile to get the train to go to work and will be able to drive it home afterwards.
Plan is to jack up and rotate each wheel, hoping to isolate the problem. Is this a common problem on this make/model/year/mileage? I'm hope something like a brake pads broke apart. I'll report back, just wondering if the collective knowledge base can shorten my hunt for the problem.
4-wheel disk brakes, need to know anything else about the car?
Purchased Oct 2014. 3rd owner, car in great shape. Coming to a stop sign this morning, in a 25MPH zone, heard a clunk and felt a pedal drop about 25% as I can to a complete stop. Pedal used to be nice and firm, now uses about 50%. Also occurred is a grinding sound on the rotors. Drove the car a mile to get the train to go to work and will be able to drive it home afterwards.
Plan is to jack up and rotate each wheel, hoping to isolate the problem. Is this a common problem on this make/model/year/mileage? I'm hope something like a brake pads broke apart. I'll report back, just wondering if the collective knowledge base can shorten my hunt for the problem.
4-wheel disk brakes, need to know anything else about the car?