RE: Brake wear sensor resistance value?

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> My understanding is that it is a complete unbroken circuit, not a
> resistor, 
> that keeps the warning light off.  when the pads wear, the wire is broken,
> 
> and the warning comes up.  In other words, just put a jumper in the
> connector 
> for the pad sensors.  Or, just splice in the porsch sensor, since you've 
> installed it (didn't you?).
> 
... you are correct ... if there is no way to wire in the wear sensor from
the new pads (or if they don't have a wear sensor) my solution has been to
cut the wiring from a set of spent pads and then short the ends of the wires
together.  This way you can keep the connector on the car's wiring loom from
getting contaminated and have a set of wires you could use in the future to
adapt new wear sensors should you decide to do that ...

HTH!
Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)