Re: $1100 to fix the "worn pads" warning? Please tell me it ain't so...

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Geoff;

    A couple of things come to mind. Spraying the cleaner on the electronics
would cool and contract the circuitry and may have re-established a bad
contact or a cold solder joint.
    Before spending the $1100, I would go over the circuit boards and solder
joints, clean all the contacts and give them the Stabilant 22 treatment.
    I just found a couple of bad solder joints on the instument panel
circuit board on my '91 200q that were giving me some intermittent problems.
I had to find them by a process of elimination, since they looked OK on the
surface.

Good luck!

Fred Munro
'91 200q  264k km
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Jenkins <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>
To: Quattro List <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 3:10 PM
Subject: $1100 to fix the "worn pads" warning? Please tell me it ain't so...


>A few days ago, the "Brake Pad Warning" light came on in the S4's autocheck
>display. Took it in, the dealer checked the connections, sprayed contact
>cleaner across the appropriate section of the dash electronics, and off
went
>the light.
>
>Today it's back, (at first only after a few minutes, now almost
>instantaneously) and the dealer tells me that unless they can find a short
>or a loose connector, I'm looking at either:
>
>a) Spending $1100 to replace the whole of that guage set that
sends/receives
>the autocheck codes.
>
>b) Disconnect the box and lose the autocheck and the radio display.
>
>Does anyone have any BTDTs on this stuff, or any plan (c)'s they'd care to
>share?
>
>Geoff
>
>'94 S4
>
>