I've changed my front discs and pads today and someone had smashed the sensor cable connector and bodged it with electrical tape, so now what do I do? Can the cable be bought?

56 plate vrs tfsi

You can buy a new connector as load the old connectors into it, I've done that on a 2000MY Passat when my VW dealer seemed to have broken mine while replacing a wheel bearing - and yes might was also covered in insulating tape, but in my case the insulating tape was used to hide the severed cable from sight!!!

 

These connectors do have a VAG p/n moulded into them, so use a magnifying glass to find out the correct p/n.

Cut the cable, solder the wires together and heat shrink it up tidily, job done.

Edited 29 March, 201610 yr by SuperbTWM

Cheers, I'll give it a go in the morning, or at least when it's not raining.