after eatmydust scraped his new aveo due to not having power assisted braking when engine was off, i tested the same yesterday and found it really annoying that braking was ~ 0 when engine was off. atleast i learnt the lesson yesterday and will be careful about that in future.

What ??? Switching off the engine will leave you with "next to nothing" braking power especially because you are expecting the brakes to be how they normally are i.e. power assisted..THAT was a dangerous thing to try.