Hi,

First post, so apologies if this has been covered elsewhere and I've missed it.

I recently got a 2019 Karoq 1.6 TDI SE L and it's got new disks and pads on the front, so when I got a check brake pad warning, I assumed that it must be the back pads, but people are telling me that the rear brakes don't have wear sensors on them.

I'm now a little confused and before I start taking things apart, I thought that I would check with you guys.

Any help/advice gratefully accepted

Simon

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What are you taking apart, maybe other than taking the wheels off.

Look at the wire / connection. Who fitted the discs & pads?

At a Inspection Service the Main Dealers Technician can have the receptionist tell you your brakes are 80% worn and never have had the wheels off.

I have just changed the front disks and pads on my 2018 1.5 manual Karok. The off side caliper frame slipped and broke the plug/socket that connects to the wear indicator on the pads and indicated " check brake pads" on the infotainment screen. Contrary to my thinking the wear indicator on the pad is 0 ohms until worn and then would change to open circuit. I consider wear indicators a complete waste of time as if the pads are worn a virual check is all thats needed. As a consequence I short circuited the wear indicator wires in the socket and the error message has cleared.

Perhaps the person who changed the brakes had similar misfortune!

Maybe that's what happened and when they changed the front, they didn't connect sensor back correctly.

If it ever stops raining I'll take the rear wheels off and get a better look at the rear pads. They look down, but not that bad and I can't see any pad wear wires.

THe wear indicator on my car is only on the off side front nothing on the rear.

Check that the wear sensor plug from the off side front pad is connected to the loom socket just above. It is not unknown for lazy mechanics to not bother connecting the wear indicator even to cutting it off from the pad. Usually this had no effect as the wear indicator in the pad needed to short circuit to indicate it had worn down. But with the Karok pad it is the opposite and goes open circuit when worn down so needs a short circuit to avoid an error message.