Hi,

The car is Octavia 4 Facelift.

I had an emergency brake occur yesterday while driving backwards, nothing major happened. However, ever since then, the brake pedal has been noticeably more sensitive, requiring less push to slow down/stop. Can you please advise what can this be about and what can be done about it?

Edited 13 March, 20251 yr by mcmarto

I think you should not be worry at all, and I would bet that by now it is all back to normal. It's absolutely normal after a high number of miles of easy brake operation—hard to explainbut they sort of relax. I've always had that feeling on several of my previous cars after driving off post-MOT, where they check brake efficiency—the brakes get super hard and sensitive for a couple of miles. That's due to temporarily increased pressure in the system and same situation occurs when you emergency brake.

Please let us know whether you find your brakes' feel back to your standard now?

13 hours ago, tomtoms said:

after driving off post-MOT, where they check brake efficiency—the brakes get super hard and sensitive for a couple of miles. That's due to temporarily increased pressure in the system

A fanciful claim, do you have anything to back that up?

Temporarily increased during the brake roller test or for a while afterwards?