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YOUR RESEARCHBrake wear sensor light is on, changed all sensors already...
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Check sensors, four sensors
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I checked all the sensors, four sensors with 8 point of contact and all appeared fine though I did replace a few.
Brake wear sensor light is on, changed all sensors already...
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During that time I have replaced the pads and sensors several times, but never worn through a sensor to set off the warning light.
Brake wear sensor light is on, changed all sensors already...
Replace sensors and the dash light is still
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Pads look new/good life left and I changed all the sensors and the dash light is still on.
Brake wear sensor light is on, changed all sensors already...
Replace thin gauge wire
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I replaced the thin gauge wire from the merge point to the chassis point, the light was out and it has never returned.
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Replace working sensors
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Replaced old working sensors with new ones and alert came on.
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Hey everyone, I'm just baffled that I can't figure this out..
I read all the previous posts and there's nothing that helped me so far.
I have a 99/996 and I bought it with the sensor light on in January of this year. Pads look new/good life left and I changed all the sensors and the dash light is still on.
Any thoughts?
I can share what happened with my car several years ago. I have owned the car for 19 years now, bought the when it was about 8 months old. During that time I have replaced the pads and sensors several times, but never worn through a sensor to set off the warning light. Then one day the light came on. I checked all the sensors, four sensors with 8 point of contact and all appeared fine though I did replace a few. Even used a electrical meter to check sensor but could not find the problem and probably drove the car for a year with the light on.
my car is a cab and one day I had the compartment liner for the top storage area out, I forget what I was doing, but noticed on one of the large bundles of wires in the wiring harness(s) some charring on a label on the bundle so I started to unwrap the bundle and found some wires that were partially melted.so I started to trace out the bundle to find the cause. Suffice it to say that many hours later, with half the interior out of the car I found the problem where several brown ground wires in gauges 12, 14, 16, etc. we’re all connect into one 18 gauge wire that then went to a ground point on the body. Why Porsche would have several thicker gauge wires merging with one thinner gauge wire is beyond me! I replaced the thin gauge wire from the merge point to the chassis point, the light was out and it has never returned. However after I had the harness rewarded, the interior back in etc. I was probably 12+ hours into the project. At a dealer with today’s rates that would be thousand of dollars. So my advice would be to take the bulb out of the warning light, which is a pain in the *** to do, or ignore it and check the pads every year or so. IMHO! ��
No alert before brake job. Replaced old working sensors with new ones and alert came on. Found right rear sensor not fully seated; alert extinguished and stayed off. So an open on any of the wires will cause the light to be turned on.
If fully seating connectors doesn't solve your issue, at the end of the service manual are wire diagrams and I would use a multimeter to troubleshoot and find cause as I hope to never unscrew a lamp to disable a fault.
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