Brake pad warning light

[James_G]

After the epic of the heater matrix I cleaned the car and headed off to tuck the car in the garage on the other side of town, to leave it for a week while I recovered. Alas, my car knows this game so a new problem manifested itself on the way - it's now the time of the brake pad warning light to come on.

I have changed the pads, discs and struts recently and saw absolutely no sign of any pad sensors but looking through a few pictures of the work I can see what looks like a brown wire taped up to the ABS sensor, shown below. Can somebody confirm that this is where the sensor wire would route?

If it is, then presumably the lead has been cut and just twisted together, and has more than likely come apart, yes? I would go and look but as I said it's in the garage and I can't face working on it for a while!!

Thanks

James

 

[Diver944]

Yep you are spot on correct []

 

[Frenchy]

[] 10 mins a side with a lump of connector block................or remove the lamp !

 

[James_G]

Gents Thanks - I'll get to it next week. Cheers James

 

[tref]

So is it just me that pays the £5 and refits them? Worse... I am thinking of fitting a set of front sensors to the back brakes, as I believe the backs only sense the inside pad, where-as the fronts sense both of them. Any reason why I shouldn't do this?

 

[elvis]

Make sure you tuck the wire going between the inner and outer pad in properly, mine obviously got caught in the wheel at some point and were never seen again. I'm too lazy/tight to buy any more and it spends almost as much time on stands with the wheels off than on the road so it's not like I won't notice the pads wearing out []

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: elvis ... it spends almost as much time on stands with the wheels off than on the road ...

Ahhh .... as my (late) grandfather once said to me, "When the nuts do more RPM than the wheels, then you you know it's an enthusiast's car!" (RIP Gramps. He liked the Mk1 GTi - thought it was almost as good as his series I landie. He'd have loved the 944.) Oli.

 

[James_G]

ORIGINAL: tref So is it just me that pays the £5 and refits them? Worse... I am thinking of fitting a set of front sensors to the back brakes, as I believe the backs only sense the inside pad, where-as the fronts sense both of them. Any reason why I shouldn't do this?

Apparently they have a tendency to melt with track use which would mean I'd be replacing them three times a year if it's true. I've never had a set of pads down to the metal ever and equally I've never had an accurate brake pad warning come up so I have decided that they're not for me. As for your rear sensors, I read that 87.4%* of all brake systems wear the inside pad faster than the outer one, so it's unlikely to be of benefit. * a made up statistic but you get the idea - something to do with cooling probably.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: James_G I read that 87.4%* of all brake systems wear the inside pad faster than the outer one, so it's unlikely to be of benefit.

That may well be true of sliding-caliper systems, but I would doubt it to be true of the opposed-cylinder systems on the S2/951's. (If it is, I would be seriously interested in why it is so.) Either way, it doesn't detract from James's excellent point, so as you were chaps .... Oli.