"Brake pads worn" light on

[whannon]

1994 Q 45t 171,000 miles

I replaced the front brakes on my Q yesterday plus the front right caliper yesterday ( lower piston was hagging up a bit,, on the front right caliper ) with a rebuild caliper unit. Installed the new pads, capliper, and reinstalled the pad ware-sensor, into the rebuild caliper without incident , check all connections, etc. all appeared fine, etc.

Started the car, and the "brake Pad worn" indicated light came on in the inst cluster display, & does not reset itself.

The new pads have squeakers,, so the elec. brake pad ware indicator/sensor is not really required.

Suggestions? I did notice the few of the other posts on this topic to "wire the sensor" leads together, to disable this , warning , which is fine, any other suggestions?

I suspect its the brake sensor,, and has nothing to do with and other elect issues.

[maxnix]

Correct OEM pads? Shim kit?

"Squeakers" operate too late.

[qship96]

electronic or mechanical indicators of brake pad wear are not to be trusted as the sole alarm that pads are nearly expired as they only monitor 2 of the 4 wheels! Many times,pads dont wear evenly !

[AlabamaDan]

If you didn't get OEM pads with the new sensor, the only way to make the message go away is to tie the wires. Search, there's a good thread on that.