Last week I drove test a beautiful black Oultander.
The vehicle is a dream, with best response than RAV4, and really easy to control.
The only but, is that during the test drive, I made a sudden stop, from 25-35 mps; when the car came to a complete stop, there was a cracking noise coming from the breaks. I made the same test with a RAV4 and a CR-V, and it worked fine, with no noise at all.
The salesman told me a couple of days later the noise was produced by the ABS, balancing the wheel movement in order to stop in a straight line.
Is this what really happened? Has anyone in the Forum had a similar experience? Or should I assume it was the unit I drove that had a malfunction in the breaks? sustem?
Regards

That is how it works. ABS is sensitive on Outlander and will activate easy. It happens very often on the rain especialy if you brake and stear at the same time.
if you decide to buy the car ,listen for the bearing noise since that is a common fault with Outlander.

Thanks for the advise Boris
I have been told that other reason for the noise could be dry rubber parts in the wheel/break system due to the long journey from and warehousing since it was shipped from Japan.
They are checking on this and I will test it again. This will decide the deal.

With my experience for the Outlander, there were repeated problems with the brake noise, but it only occurs occassionally, so I couldn't figure out what it exactly is, even to this day. Another thing with it was a recall for this vehicle... Two to be exact. One was with what you mentioned: the rubbers are made for Japanese weather, whereas it's North America here... Second recall was with the intake I believe.