Mik3F
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After a little advice / help
The brake pad warning light intermittently appears on the dash of our A4 Avant. Pressing the check button when the engine is switched off shows everything is OK with the sensors themselves.
The pad sensors have been cut and twisted together as they were causing the light to be on all the time by my brother in laws mechanic although I haven't checked myself. So I guess this should be my first port of call to check both pad splices to make sure they are solid.
Is there any other way to fool the system into not showing the warning light? I have heard you can slice into the cable itself as it enters the cluster and run a wire to ground, but I am not sure where this is located
I know the pads have plenty of meat left on them as they are less than 6 months old.
The warning light is annoying when it appears and the beep is worse if going over 80mph on the motorway, which was the the last time it appeared before today just over 2 weeks ago.
I can live with it at the moment and do intend to get my mechanic to check it out when the car is next serviced (in about 4000 miles) but if I can sort it myself beforehand then that would be great.
The brake pad warning light intermittently appears on the dash of our A4 Avant. Pressing the check button when the engine is switched off shows everything is OK with the sensors themselves.
The pad sensors have been cut and twisted together as they were causing the light to be on all the time by my brother in laws mechanic although I haven't checked myself. So I guess this should be my first port of call to check both pad splices to make sure they are solid.
Is there any other way to fool the system into not showing the warning light? I have heard you can slice into the cable itself as it enters the cluster and run a wire to ground, but I am not sure where this is located
I know the pads have plenty of meat left on them as they are less than 6 months old.
The warning light is annoying when it appears and the beep is worse if going over 80mph on the motorway, which was the the last time it appeared before today just over 2 weeks ago.
I can live with it at the moment and do intend to get my mechanic to check it out when the car is next serviced (in about 4000 miles) but if I can sort it myself beforehand then that would be great.