I was driving about 30mph, when someone turned left in front of me, so I braked hard, I took my foot off the brake, then the light turned yellow, so I broke hard again not to gun it, and I lost power assist. The brake pedal felt very hard, and I pressed it hard, and it was hardly stopping the fit.
Very dangerous, it also made a clunk sound. When I finally came to a stop, the "power" brake came back.
I guess 1.5 engine just doesn't produce enough vacuum & I ran out. I'm think I'm gonna try a vacuum reservior!

 

Are you sure it just wasn't the ABS?

 

How would I know?
I don't think abs is on when your going only 30mph.
I didn't feel the brake pedal pulsate like when abs kicks in.

 

I would suggest you find a deserted street, and duplicate your problem stop.
if you can, and its a problem, take it to your dealer, and show him what you think is wrong. the wheels will not lock up if you jam on the brakes. thats the 4 wheel antilock

 

ABS doesn't neccesarily pulsate. I have yet to try them on the Fit but on my old S10 they just kind of got noisy and seemed like they weren't braking well. If I would let off and get back into them it would brake a lot harder though.

 

if ur wheels lock, u feel like u're speeding up. if u felt like a gradual slowing down, thats ABS

 

Well, I did a search on some honda forums,
apparently this is a quite a common problem.
I used up all the vacuum in the brake booster.

I will definitely due something to increase my
vacuum capacity.

 

the ABS system is working at ANY SPEED, find yourself an icy parking lot this winter and see for yourself, preferably an empty lot just get rolling and try to stop "normally". Snow will work too but ice will definately show you the ABS is working below 30 mph

 

"HasaFraker" The original poster, "Jimmy101" will never see snow in the desert! I think?

 

LOL I didn't notice he's in Vegas, hehe oh he could drive up to Big Bear this winter!

 

That sounds like ABS to me. If I could make one change in the Fit (and every other car) it would be to get rid of ABS.

 

I've had a few close calls, and I was quite pleased with the braking response, ABS doing it's thing and the pedal didn't feel funny after either.

 

ABS prevents wheels from locking preventing sliding/gliding. It comes on whenever you step on the brakes hard, it modulates the brakes w/c results in some weird brake feeling. That's my understanding of how it works.