Workaround for brake pad wear light.....

[Mike Larosa <mlarosa@v8q.East.Sun.COM>]

Fixed this on the V8 by cutting the wire and twisting 
together.......

Haven't seen a blink since :-)

Mike L.
90 V8
89 100 Avant


>
>
>I have no idea what causes it, but the same problem occurred 
with my '89
>100q.  The pad wear warning indicator came on; we pulled the 
wheels and
>replaced the pad.  Pads still has 40 to 5-% of their useful 
life left.
>
>Bill murin
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, David Boyd wrote:
>
>
>> 
>> Has anyone experienced premature operation of this, well 
before the pads
>> are worn anywhere near the embedded wires ?
>> This happened once, when the (Pagid) pads were less than 
half-worn, but
>> I changed them to remove the irritation and the crying of 
wolf.
>> But this has now recurred with the new ones (Ferodo) which 
started this
>> when only about one-fifth worn.
>> I seem to remember this happening once on my previous Audi 
100 but
>> changing the pads cured it.
>> Could it be anything to do with the asbestos-free 
composition of pads
>> nowadays being conductive enough to make the circuit with 
the embedded
>> wires ?    
>>


	
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