[s-cars] Brake wear sensor question

[Ivan Demkovitch]

Igor,

I think you getting old :)

But no, there wasn't anything like you describing. Those female connectors 
were secured with zip ties and taped with no other connection to them. Just 
plain connectors with electric tape on top. FL had "piece of sensor" which 
was rotten cable with piece of what should be "male" connector and it 
self-distruct when I touched it. But it was secured on a caliper. FR side 
doesn't even have anything coming out of caliper.

I don't know how soon BBB conversion will take place but can't look at this 
light any longer.. May be some black tape on OBD will help? What do you 
think? :)

Ivan
540i/6
urS4

>From: Igor Kessel <KBATPO at comcast.net>
>To: Ivan Demkovitch <idemkovitch at hotmail.com>
>CC: 'Kent McLean' <kentmclean at mindspring.com>,  s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Brake wear sensor question
>Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:48:29 -0400
>
>Ivan Demkovitch wrote:
>>Ok. Used voltmeter to check - seems like I get something weak(0.1-0.2V) 
>>and
>>fluctuating at one of the pins.
>>It could be my ground (suspension bolt) not really good choice or it might
>>be broken wire.
>>Will continue tomorrow..
>>
>>Do you have any pointers on where to look for this wire at firewall?
>>

>
>Ivan,
>many years ago when your car was still in Larry's possession he once had 
>the pads replaced in some unscrupulous garage that installed some cheap 
>aftermarket pads w/o the embedded wear sensors. Which in turn had tripped 
>the Autocheque.
>
>After that he brought the car to me for the diagnostic. I cut off a couple 
>of female (a.k.a. "the mother") connectors  off some old pads, shorted 
>their wires and plugged them into the brake harnesses to fool Autocheck 
>into thinking that the pads were OK. I also told Larry to keep an eye on 
>the pad thickness since he no longer had the benefit of the Autocheck by 
>his side. I told him not to worry about it too much and just replace the 
>pads with the proper ones the next time they were due for replacement.
>
>Evidently one of the connectors hastingly hacked by me has come loose 
>and/or lost contact. Remove them, undo the electrical tape, solder the ends 
>and plug them back in. You're going to perform the BBB conversion soon, 
>right? In this case I wouldn't spend another minute on fixing the crappy 
>G60 since you'll be adapting the Porsche pad sensors to the Audi harness 
>anyway....
>
>--
>Igor Kessel
>two turbo quattros