Brake Pad Wear Warning Light

[Max Hoepli]

I have connected the loose cut endings of the cables in both front wheel
wells which once had a plug connecting to the wires for the brake wear
sensors. The whitish triangle with drum brake pad symbol is still
illuminating.

 

Ideas?

 

1986 Type 44 Turbo Quattro, 315.000km

Max

 

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From: Grant Lenahan [mailto:glenahan at vfemail.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 08:31
To: Tony Hoffman
Cc: Max Hoepli; audi_owners_usa at yahoogroups.com; quattro at audifans.com;
w-t_audifans at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Brake Pad Wear Warning Light

 

Well, that would explain it. but why were they not then on since day 1?

 

Grant

On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Tony Hoffman wrote:





Hmm, I assume he means they are cut off but open. Hopefully, we will here
which is the case.........

 

Tony

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Grant Lenahan <glenahan at vfemail.net> wrote:

i assume he means he already has a shorting plug in place.....

On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Tony Hoffman wrote:

> For that light to go out, those two wires need to be connected together.
It
> there is an open circuit, it lights the warning. If it's shorted, the
light
> goes out. The wear sensor inthe pads is just a complete circuit that gets
> cut when the pads wear about 90%.
>
> The newer cars (such as the A6 mentioned) only use one indicator, on the
> drivers wheel. On the older ones, there is one on each wheel. I keep the
> plugs with wire from every set of pads I throw out. That way, I can make a
> quick plug in harness if needed, instead of cutting into the factory
> harness.
>
> Tony
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Max Hoepli <mhoepli at vif.com> wrote:
>
>> My pads at all wheels are thick, the sensor wires have been cut from the
>> front pads.

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