Brake Wear indicators

[karl210]

Just changed the brakes on a mates car and the pads that i was given didnt have the sensors in them like the previous ones did. I changed them anyway but the indicator has come on the dash. To get rid of it do i cut the wires and insulate them so they dont touch or do i cut the wires, connect them both up so they make the circuit? Cant remember weather i need to make or break the circuit for the light to go out. thanks

[bacillus]

You need to connect both wires together (i.e. short them) or get someone with vcds to code it out.

[Tortaruga]

Probably better to code them out with vcds. If you short them and then want to use the indicator in future I suppose you'd have problems.

[bacillus]

Probably better to code them out with vcds. If you short them and then want to use the indicator in future I suppose you'd have problems.

I cut the wires off the old brake pad, shorted those then connected the attached plug to the indicator socket.

[karl210]

Cheers fellas, I will short the wires out after the plug so im not damaging anything. Its not on vw so cant use vcds