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Andy B

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Re: Brake wear sensor triggered; pad life left?
« Reply #15 on: 11 January 2011, 22:46:03 »

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Hiya you will have plenty of time about 5mm off pad left, if you're doing the job yourself ,also get the sender as they usually break when you extract the  oldone to get access to remove the old pad. :y
Yup, will do, the sensor broke when the pads were changed on my previous Omega  :P.

The sensor is already 'broke' it's worn through & triggered the low pad message.  :y :y
What I was trying to say was that the sender will no doubt break  :P.

I know!  ;)

It's only fit for the bin whether it snaps in 2 or not.  :y
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Re: Brake wear sensor triggered; pad life left?
« Reply #16 on: 11 January 2011, 23:04:25 »

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Sorry  ::)

Brake pads should be binned when half the material has worn away.

The brake pad material acts as a thermal insulator between the hot brake disc and the brake piston.

As the brake pads wear the caliper pistons move further out and more brake fluid sits in the calipers.

The excess fluid in the caliper will make spongy brakes worse.

When the brake material gets too thin (ie less than 1/2 the original thickness) it starts to break up and will disappear very quickly.

For all the reasons listed above I don't think Mr Hagon should drive his car until he has inspected his brake pads.
Fair point, I will have a look in the morning when it's light and take a view from there.  As I have the receipts for most of the work done on the car I'll have to see when the discs/pads were last changed...
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