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Brake pads and discs wear.
jitenc
 

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Brake pads and discs wear.

I have changed my 20" alloys which were TPMS compactable to non-TPMS 18" alloys. I have to live with the message that springs up on the dash every time, I switch on the ignition, that TMPS is unavailable.
On one occasion, the dash showed, that the front near side tyre had a fault. This was of course, an error message. I nevertheless took at car to a local garage just to make sure the brakes and pads were ok.
The mechanic had a look at the pads and disc, while the car was on a ramp. He came back with a surprising finding. He said, that there was no sensor in measuring the discs or brake pad wear. The only way was visual inspection.
Now, this was a surprise to me. A car this expensive has no means of warning you if the pads are coming to a minimum acceptable level before there is metal to metal contact. Can anyone verify this? Evoque is an earlier 2011 built. Thanks in advance.

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13-12-2014 07:38am
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Stadt Panzer
 

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Brake pads and discs wear.

Not sure that I've ever heard of disc wear sensor, would be a bit of an overkill as you'd like to think that something like that would be picked up on a service.

Not having a brake pad sensor seems weird as even a lot of, if not all billy basic cars have those nowadays.

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13-12-2014 09:27am
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RE: Brake pads and discs wear.

No they are normally fitted on Land Rover products and if you replace the pads then you should replace the sensors at the same time. All my previous RRS's and FFRR's had them. I wouldn't be surprised though if they have stopped fitting them, by all accounts it was a fiddly time consuming thing to change.

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ChuckieB
 

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RE: Brake pads and discs wear.

Some have expressed concerns on this. Mine failed it's MOT today on its rear pads. 44k miles and a lot of motorway driving. No mention on the state of the discs though!

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EosMilan
 

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RE: Brake pads and discs wear.

Hi jitenc!,
it's incredible to believe it but it's true: Evoque hasn't got any sensor for the brake pads! I discovered this on December as my Dynamic was making some weird noises in reverse at very low speed and my dealer workshop manager confirmed I was very closed to damaging disks. I admit I was QUITE SURPRISED too! Sad The bigger sisters of the Evoque (the Sport and the Classic) do have them.

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04-02-2015 09:39pm
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bee
 

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RE: Brake pads and discs wear.

(04-02-2015 09:39pm)EosMilan Wrote:  Hi jitenc!,
it's incredible to believe it but it's true: Evoque hasn't got any sensor for the brake pads! I discovered this on December as my Dynamic was making some weird noises in reverse at very low speed and my dealer workshop manager confirmed I was very closed to damaging disks. I admit I was QUITE SURPRISED too! Sad The bigger sisters of the Evoque (the Sport and the Classic) do have them.

See you!,
Eos

oh dear, I remember my old niva had wear sensors on the brakes. but then they were soviet made.Confused

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05-02-2015 07:20pm
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