Is something wrong with my brakes?

[jon456]

Last night I did something unbelievably dumb and I admit it. I was with a buddy and we were on a very straight socluded street at night and I was going 70mph, which was fine but the road was about to end so I started breaking and I could either turn left or right at the corner and I was breaking pretty hard towards the end of the road and I started turning left at 35 mph and it almost felt like my brakes cut out for a couple seconds, like I was literally almost all the way down and I wasn't really skidding or anything but it felt like they were grinding and not stopping like they should. Is anything wrong or is this to be expected when braking this hard?

[toyomoho]

Do you have ABS? If so, this will limit your braking efforts to keep from locking the tires up.

[jon456]

Gotcha, yes I do its an Avalon XLS.

[darksparkz]

Was it vibrating or the pedal was pulsating? If so, then that is ABS working its magic to prevent you from locking up and skidding.

[ShawnM]

Ya, probably the ABS. The pedal may feel like its sinking down when it actuates.