Q: Brakes behaving erratically and sometimes failing
Not all the time but sometimes my brakes fail... They work most of the time but sometimes when I push down of the brakes they slip and fail... When I let go of the brake and try again most of the times it works but sometimes it does it again.
My car has 167000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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