I've had the "check brake pads" warning come up on the maxidot display for the last few weeks now. The wiring has been previously shorted out by the garage so I'd not expect to see this warning at all? It's back in for some other stuff, but the garage is telling me that the warning is caused by corrosion in the wiring and to fix needs TWO "ABS sensor looms" at £££ each + labour.

I guess I have some choices:

- replace both looms = £££

- just ignore the warning

- get them to turn it off entirely?

If there's corrosion in this wiring, and I don't replace am I storing up other problems for later? What other questions could I ask them?

TIA!

(edited to add - this is on a 2005 Superb)

Edited 23 August, 201114 yr by jonathan.tong

The garage obviously bodged the senor wire last time hence the corrosion. What they should of done is joined the wires on the brake pad loom (personally though I would be asking why they did not fit the correct pads in the 1st place!)

Obviously repairing / replacing the loom is the 'proper' way to go, otherwise get the sensor turned off via VCDS.

Not quite sure why 2 looms now need to be change though?

Mine used to come on in cold damp mornings... So I coded it out with vag-com and haven't had any problems since

I can see why it's a useful system to some people, but I service my own car etc and keep an eye on things like that, so I didn't mind losing it.

I think I'm going to go down the route of getting the warning coded out so it doesn't show. AFAIK the pads as fitted did have the relevant sensor wire, but the original diagnosis was that it had prematurely broken/failed hence the original "check brake pad" warning. Apparently the technician has seen "lots" of these, which is not good news.

I expect that mine will start doing this randomly again once the damp/salty weather starts again. I can see perfectly well if the pads are wearing through the gaps in the wheels. I think turning the lamp off in VCDS is a good move overall given the propensity on these cars to develop stupid electrical faults.