here's a follow up to my problem also:
i've had the car at the dealership since last thursday. first they say it's some sort of "rear brake" adjustments that were out of whack, so i'm happy, they don't charge me anything, and i leave with my car. I get 2 miles down the road, and the rear brakes are locking up again. I pull into the service department, and the rear brakes are extremely hot, and you can smell them. they apologize, and give me a loaner car and say it will be fixed the next day. they even called in another mechanic and he walks in and before he even looks at it says "oh, i know what's wrong, it's the vacuum hoses (that attach to the brake booster i assume?)
i go back to the dealer the next day, and they say the vacuum hoses were fine and it was just that the rear brakes were installed wrong. so i pay them, leave, get two miles down the road and the back brakes are locking up again. the service guy tells me he drove the car for 35 miles and it was working fine. i leave the car there and they say they'll take care of it.
i call monday, and they didn't even know my car was there. then the service manager calls me 5 minutes later asking me where my car is. i guess he eventually found it, because he called me back and told me he just drove it for 20 more miles and it's working fine. i tell him he must have some sort of magic touch. so i go down there after work, and drive the car with a tech. i can feel the pedal getting stiffer as we're going, so i'm confident i can finally prove this to them. i get out, get the tech to drive, and he says it feels fine and there's basically nothing they can do unless he can drive it and the brakes are totally locking up. i tell him this has already happened more than once. i don't think he believes me.
we get back to the dealer, and another manager decides that it must be the brake fluid doing this. so today they're flushign and changing my brake fluid for free. i doubt this will do anything, and i'll get two miles down the road and they'll be tightening up.
i've told them that i've researched the problem, found people with the exact problem to the t, and that the problem should be with the brake booster. they don't believe me, and say that that doesn't even make sense. i know i'm going to go back there today and it's still going to be broken...
so basically, should i just bite the bullet, take the gamble and tell them to put in a brake booster? take it to another dealer? take it to an independent mechanic?
what would you guys do? please help.