Front brake pad wear

[steve_earwig]

Figures What language is it set to?

[FarmerPug]

english (united kingdom)

[steve_earwig]

Ah, I thought it might be Swahili or something.

I'll set mine to Crtao, teret, more red engleskih tkan I okno watt to do hitih

[FarmerPug]

its english ok, i just ignore the red lines.

[jamjar1383]

just to update my brake wear light has gone off now the weather has dried out

[FarmerPug]

i havent looked at mine, but the car got a powerhose today, not a proper car wash but a blast of high pressure water which made the light invisible, i shall need to look at in the darkness.

[Archangel]

oh is this like the haynes manual on a cd except more content?

wayyyy more content, shows everything a mechanic would need like timing belt info, aux belt routing , diagnostic codes and what they mean, service shedules, and loads more.

if u have bit torrent id be happy to point u to the place i had mine from.

please do thanks in advance

[FarmerPug]

i got the car a full mot wash, plus the top washed. but still the light is dimly visile at night only.

[406BE]

i had that show up with the cold weather, if its due to that no problem , once ure driving it wont show

[FarmerPug]

its invisible during the day now, just dimly visible at night.

[grasmere59]

My light came on faintly when i braked and the pads were only 3 months old,it was worse when it rained and when i eventually took the wheel off i found that one of the sensor wires had just been rubbing on the inside of the wheel rim and had exposed the inner core of the wire hence the light coming on,a quick snip with the pliers and no more sensor wire and no more light!

[FarmerPug]

do i need the wear sensor, surely the sign of squealing and ineffective brakes is better than a light.

[grasmere59]

There are wear sensors on both sides so as long as you don't have sticky calipers the pads should wear evenly on both sides so when the other side is down and the light comes on they all should need replacing,my 5 series BMW has only sensors on 1 side,when i think back over the years only a handful of my cars had sensors and it never gave me any trouble and to be honest the ones with sensors had the pads changed before the light came on,i find if they are getting low it's normally picked up at the mot.

[Harshan]

Brake light was lighting up sometimes back when I had the leaky master pump, that is as a brake fluid level warning.

[FarmerPug]

ill check the fluid