Brake Pad Wear Light

[Kneale Brownson]

You can TRY jumpering at the connection at the wheelwells, but often the issue is in the wiring farther up the system. Some cars, the jumpering works best at the instrument cluster. 

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> On May 31, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> mboucher70 wrote:
>> The Brake Pad Wear Light recently came on and stays on.  Car is an Audi 100, 1990.  The pads were changed less then 10 thousand miles ago and they look like they’ve got significant wear left.
> 
> 
> I haven’t seen a response, so I’ll give you a fading 10-year-old memory.  That light comes one when the brake pad is worn so much that it wears through the wire in the pads, breaking the circuit and lighting the warning light. 
> 
> If you only have 10K miles on the pads, then there is probably a break within the circuit (IIRC, which goes from under the dash, to the left front pad, the right front pad, and back to dash). You can try to trace the wires (pick a pad and check along both wires). But, and things are hazy here, those wires go back to a relay or a junction box before heading to the light in the dash. You can make a jumper wire to insert into that relay connector or junction box, to bypass the whole mess, ensuring a continuous circuit and no warning light.
> 
> Don’t ask me where or how to jump the connection. You should be able to search the archives for that.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> —
> Kent McLean
> ’02 VW Beetle TDI and lots of ex-Audis, including Bad Puppy
> 
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