Help!...my brakes (archive)

I've been following this board since buying my 7 a year ago here in the Land Down Under and have enjoyed and benefitted tremendously from your knowledge.

Now I have a reason to post a message: My brakes seize up, especially in city driving conditions (ie frequent starts & stops) but my mechanic can't find the fault. First, he thought it was the pressure accumulator. But changing it solved nothing.

What do I mean by 'seizing up'? Well, it's like the brake pedal becomes 'hard' and I can't depress it all the way down like normal. But the brakes still work.

I don't get this problem when driving in the suburbs with light traffic. It only acts up after frequent starts & stops. So as you can imagine, this makes it harder for the mechanic to troubleshoot.

I'm still driving the car now. But I'm worried one day it will just seize up completely and leave me with no brakes at all.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Can anyone tell me what is wrong or knows vaguely what is the likely problem? Any advice or suggestions will be much appreciated. My thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.

Tom
1985 735i
199k KM

Follow Ups:

Re: Help!...my brakes Raymond Lombardo 12:42 12/16/2000 (1)
- Re: Help!...my brakes Tom L 22:14 12/16/2000 (0)

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