MrChris wrote:
It was the front hoses. 100 quid later and I have brakes again
But that shouldn't matter - cars have had a twin-split braking system for - Christ - sixty years or so now. The idea is that if one component fails you lose two of the brakes but the other two carry on working (normally it's one front brake and the opposite rear one, for obvious reasons).
Unless you were unlucky enough to lose a brake on both sides at once, that's really, really odd.
I guess modern cars could have stopped doing it that way, but that would also be really, really odd.