Possible, that's why I need to explore.
Had something similar in my Mums 190E, the brake sensor had partially
come out of it's hole and there was still a good 1/3 of the pad left
when the light came on.
Hendrik
OK Don wrote:
Another possibility is that the wire to the caliper/pad is rubbing somewhere
else and shorting - causing the light to flicker while the pad is still
good.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Hendrik & Fay <heni...@ozemail.com.au>wrote:
The bloody brake light in the TE has come on again, I did the brakes (new
ATE pads and rotors) not even 15K km ago.
I haven't had a chance to have a look but from the way the light is
flickering it looks like the pads are stuffed. I may have a problem such as
a sticking piston but won't know until I pull the brakes apart, time for a
flush anyway.
Anyway now the Oz bean is worth about as much as your cotton rag, I might
go the Akebono route and give Rusty some business (I see he has 124 rotors
on sale but the shipping for those would be crazy perhaps that sexy pack of
fuses might have to be the go
http://www.buymbparts.biz/content.wws?fname=specials.html ), however with
the ceramics there are two schools of thought, those who say they are the
ducks guts and those who reckon they don't work well when they are cold.
However I am confident Rusty wouldn't flog them if there was a chance that
they are not up to the job.
The other problem is that my other car is on loan for the time being, so we
are down to one car, guess once the ute makes a reappearance I'll suzz out
why the pads have been eaten in a short space of time (perhaps the missus is
driving with one foot on the brakes) and then sent out for a care package
from the US of A.
Hendrik
who should have bought Akebonos while he was in the US
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