Hi all, my first post.

Need some assistance if anyone knows how the hell i turn off the annoying beeping due to my brake pad wear indicator coming on on Sat!! its driving me mad now everytime i touch the brake.....can anyone help?!

many thanks

Paz

Change the brake pads!

R33 wrote:

Change the brake pads!

thats the next step, but until then, i have gotta get this indicator sorted, either that or i am going to have to buy a death metal CD and play it at full volume

Option 2 is to take the wheels off and gut the wire to the sensors. Option 1 is however your best bet!

Apart from the 2 options mentioned there's not alot you can do as I believe tht removal of the fuse affects other important things. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Just use the electronic parking brake to stop! Just kidding. The sensors are probably designed to be annoying on "purpose" - when activated it means your pads are worn down to almost nothing - less than 5% left I think - and you need new ones, pronto. But I also had to put up with that damn chime every time I touched the brakes not long ago in L.A. stop-and-go traffic, so I know what you mean. I wish they had designed the sensors to activate some sort of steady "Brakes Fault" red light in the instrument cluster - which would extinguish only after the sensors were replaced with new ones, since once triggered they are no good anyway - instead of the "Ding! Fault - Oh, Never mind - Ding! Fault - Oops, My mistake - Ding! Fault" routine... 

From memory ( i have just done mine) once on the edge of wearing and when the sensor is worn (shorts) the intermittent ding stops as the warning is permanent...

So brake harder quick for a while then the frequent dings will stop - but of course dont forget to do them otherwise the annoying squeal follows along with a higher bill !!!

I had about 3mm on the front left and around 5 mm on the rear when the first sensor shorted out....

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Just use the electronic parking brake to stop! Just kidding. The sensors are probably designed to be annoying on "purpose" - when activated it means your pads are worn down to almost nothing - less than 5% left I think - and you need new ones, pronto. But I also had to put up with that damn chime every time I touched the brakes not long ago in L.A. stop-and-go traffic, so I know what you mean. I wish they had designed the sensors to activate some sort of steady "Brakes Fault" red light in the instrument cluster - which would extinguish only after the sensors were replaced with new ones, since once triggered they are no good anyway - instead of the "Ding! Fault - Oh, Never mind - Ding! Fault - Oops, My mistake - Ding! Fault" routine...

Involves brake pad change some time....

£110 ish DIY - £330 ish Stealer...

Yeah, much safer and easier on your ears and mental state if you just go and get them done

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