Mysterious Brake Pad Warning

[M-A8]

Originally Posted by Pug

'Conquistador' experienced a similar anomaly with his D3 S8, all it was just one of the wear wires (or sensor thing) that had come adrift, making it seem like the pads were worn. Audi couldn't even diagnose it, but we got it up on the ramp at my place of work, and it wasn't very hard to spot.

Nice, thanks mate
Will defo get the wheels off soon to inspect it. Is it better to look from underneath or above??
Have you guys got any pictures??
Did you solder the wire back or ...??
I may actually call Ollie tomorrow or over the weekend.

[Pug]

Originally Posted by M-A8

Nice, thanks mate
Will defo get the wheels off soon to inspect it. Is it better to look from underneath or above??
Have you guys got any pictures??
Did you solder the wire back or ...??
I may actually call Ollie tomorrow or over the weekend.

The work was done by one of the technicians at my 'garage', and he simply said "the wear sensor had come adrift so I refitted it".

The technician was in the process of changing the pads anyway, so the car was already raised and wheels were off.

[snapdragon]

There are no codes stored. Left and right are in series and ultimately link to ground and a pin on the instrument cluster connector. If the wiring is beyond repair, you can find the pins in the wiring diagram and jumper them. This is on my to-do list. I paired back the wires to where they amalgamate with the ABS loom to no avail.

[ScottD3]

I had the same issue on mine.
Never any fault codes and the odd warning would pop up.

Bought new pads, genuine cable holders on the back of the calipers, cleaned the plugs and bolted it all back up.
Been perfect ever since.