Worn Brake Pad Warning Light?

[Manxman]

Brake pad warning light remains on after replacing worn front pads and topping up brake fluid. The old pads had quite a bit of life left on them even though the carbon wiring contact was making a circuit which I believed was the cause for the warning light to come on in the first place. I have driven a number of miles on the new pads and also tried disconnecting battery and re-connecting to see if any sensor resets but to no avail.

Any advice much appreciated as usual.

KF

[NikpV]

we had this see

 

brake pad saga

 

eventually ford changed the instrument cluster - three times now it works fine :blink:

[Masked Marauder]

The pad sensor is a loop of wire in a plastic pad and the sytem puts a very low voltage through it, when the pad wears away the wire is cut and the voltage is lost. The system then detects this and warns you by lighting the lamp in the cluster.

 

So if you look at the sensor and it looks undamaged then the problem is elsewhere, it could be a bad connection or a broken wire or as NikpV has said a faulty instrument cluster.

[Guest neil_wiles]

there are sensors on the rear pads too which caught me out the first time they wore down.

[Denis]

there are sensors on the rear pads too which caught me out the first time they wore down.

Yeah, strange that the rears seem to wear out more quickly than the front.

[sepulchrave]

Ah, a shed-dragger! :D