You won’t get a warning a warning for the rear pads, just the fronts have the sensor.
Are you sure about that?
My last few Audi’s had warning sensors on the rear. I’m sure my mk4 golf had rear brake sensors.
Pretty sure mate though I did mines last year, but I’ve just put my reg in ECP to doublecheck and it doesn’t give me the option to buy a sensor for the rear just the front.
Oh well learn something new everyday.
It’s probably another cost cutting exercise as the sensor is just 2 wires essentially.
Thanks mate. Will look at changing rear discs and pads!The general rule of thumb is that it is a good idea to change brake pads when the friction material reaches the stage where it is a similar thickness to the steel backing plate. Pads rarely wear exactly evenly, so you should base this on the thinnest pad. This is roughly about 3mm. The friction material on a new pad is about 11mm. Those discs don't look great - the rusty section at the top is far too wide - I've seen this on "tired" rear discs on several A3s.
I had a look and there's a tonne of options and different brands ranging from £15 for a disc?! That seems cheap.Google is your friend.
How much do you reckon I'm looking at for rear discs and pads on an S3?
AUTODOC doing trw discs at under £14 each and pads £22. I’ve said this in other post I’m a big fan of trw stuff. Good quality and good price and main thing is they usually come with fittings and sensors. Their cotec range has less dust than oe pads.
Only downside is autodoc takes around a week for delivery as it comes from Europe somewhere but they are much cheaper than ecp even with the 50% off. Discounts are better on their app than websites.
Edit: forgot to paste the link
https://m.autodoc.co.uk/trw/7489104
https://m.autodoc.co.uk/trw/2189743
Cheers for this, was looking to buy Brembo discs and pads from euro car parts when the next 50% discount code came on but these come in at half that price.