VW Golf GT TDi ("Check Break Pads")

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Is this warning just a general "Change break pads" or could it be some sort of sensor damage? to be honest the breaks feel fine?

Trying to find someone with a diagnostics cable and a copy of VAGCOM to get a more detailed look into it.
 
You know they could feel fine and the sensor is letting you know you have to change them (v. soon) before they don't feel fine and ruin your discs?

Why not take tyres off or if open alloys take a look?
 
Why don't you just skip the whole VAGCOM thing, assume that it isn't telling you lies and is infact doing it's job. Check the brake pads.
 
Have you checked to see how worn your pads are? They might still feel fine but be on their last legs. Either that or the sensor is malfuntioning, which should be repaired under warranty. Failing that, mondeo
 
You know, with something like brakes, why risk it? Take it to a garage and get them to check it.

Unless you happen to like the prospect of wrapping yourself around a tree.
 
Its a simple wear sensor that burns through two wires when the pads get towards 'end of life', either that or the sensor has water in the connector or has come unpluged.

Either way your wheel isn't going to fall off, you aint going to crash into a tree then exploded into a fireball, however you should check if the pads are low and get them changed.

Oh and btw sometimes the system gets an open circuit and displays a false reading.
 
neil-ste said:
Why don't you just skip the whole VAGCOM thing, assume that it isn't telling you lies and is infact doing it's job. Check the brake pads.
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It's amazing how little people trust their cars. I appreciate things may go wrong from time to time, but it my car told me to check something, I'd do it! VW must have invested millions in these electronics, why did they bother? Could have saved themselves some money by printing "ask an internet forum in event of warning light" in the manual!
 
As others have said, it will be that the wear sensor has worn through. Do what it says and check the brake pads :D
 
I was intending on taking it to a garage anyway seeing as my service/MOT is due, I was just trying to get a response to see how many people have had malfunctioning sensors before, I had a few on my last car but it wasnt a Golf. Iv heard here and there that VW's electrics can be sometimes dodgy.
 
[Sniper][Wolf];12057847 said:
I was intending on taking it to a garage anyway seeing as my service/MOT is due, I was just trying to get a response to see how many people have had malfunctioning sensors before, I had a few on my last car but it wasnt a Golf. Iv heard here and there that VW's electrics can be sometimes dodgy.
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Thats outrageous! German cars don't have faults :rolleyes:;):p

/shuffles off to fix VW Golf GT TDi of his own
 
[Sniper][Wolf];12057847 said:
I was intending on taking it to a garage anyway seeing as my service/MOT is due, I was just trying to get a response to see how many people have had malfunctioning sensors before, I had a few on my last car but it wasnt a Golf. Iv heard here and there that VW's electrics can be sometimes dodgy.
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Its brake pads. No overcomplex electronics, just a simple circuit that breaks when the pads wear through. Check your brake pad material level and if they are low, change them.

How hard can it actually be :confused:
 
"lol my oil light is on, shall i put some oil in it or wait till the sound of my screeching bearings kill someone?"

Just check the brakes out, cars have warning systems that are designed to work therefore they require your attenion when they appear on the dash.
 
Change the brake pads, could be the front or the rears, on something like a golf you can take the car down to any spanner monkey, pay em £30 to get em changed.
 
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