Is There A Brake Pad Low Warning Light On

[Anton green 12 1 Cars]

Is there a brake pad low warning light on the dash for nearside AND offside fronts? Or just the one bulb on the dashboard? ta

[Ryan 99]

It's just one bulb for both.

[gti-si 0]

There's a brakepad low warning light?! My Galant doesn't even have one of those

[Anton green 12 1 Cars]

Right. I'll split the one wire which I can find tomorrow and run it to both pads then cheery cheers

[Ryan 99]

There's a brakepad low warning light?! My Galant doesn't even have one of those

 

Don't be too impressed. It's little more than a bare wire that sticks through a hole in the pad. Then when the pad gets low the wire is close enough to touch the disc, which is earthed through the hub and shock, and completes the circuit.

Edited May 20, 2007 by Ryan

[number2301 1 1 Cars]

And most of the time people don't fit them properly when changing pads so you end up with them randomly earthing on bits of the car and lighting up the light when the pads are fine.

[daza 0]

My warning light came on this morning for the first time in 6years so i took both wheels off to find one side had no wire and the other had half a wire,the pads were fine so it must be touching metal somewhere and earthing like number2301 said above.

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Disconnected this years ago and removed it once the bigger brakes went on.

[welshpug 1,657]

all the trucks I work on have them, they work fine. its usually down to fitter error that they get damaged and nothing else

 

also, if one side is worn before the other, they should be changed in a pair anyway, so one bulb does the trick

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

They're no good if you have grooved discs, I found this out on mine when the pads were down to the metal & the wear indicator had been bent over during braking when it came into contact with the grooves on my ATE powerdiscs so the dash warnign never came on.

 

Since removed & I just check when I think its getting near.

 

Graham.

[daza 0]

Mine is constantly on now and it's not connected to either pads so it must be earthing out somewhere,is there anyway of disconnecting it?

[daza 0]

It's ok i just took the bulb out,probably easier than trying to find where the wire was earthing out.