I bought my 4Runner with about 115,000 miles on it. It ran great, but then after putting about 5,000 more miles on it, I noticed that the brakes went down almost all the way to the floor before stopping the car. I took it in to get looked at, and they just replaced the brake pads. This didn't fix the problem. Took it to another place, they said it might be a master cylinder issue but they don't specialize in that, and to take it somewhere else.

I took it to a brake specialty shop, and they said it is a broken master cylinder, and to replace and install a new one will be about $3,000! I took it somewhere else because this sounded way too expensive to be true. This place said it would be about $3,000 too. I made the repair and spent the money, but my brakes are still a bit loose, when other people drive my car they always mention how "I probably need new brake pads," but I don't even want to get started with them.

This is a very annoying issue to have on a car that runs so well. I don't even want to take it back in to get looked at, because I don't want to spend any more money on these damn brakes.