audipardner
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Hi, think this is my first thread (eventually) but getting loads of useful info in my quest to turn my A4 sport into what it should be!!
I have posted this on another forum, so apoligies to those who have seen before.
Please bear with me on this one, dont mean to sound rude......
My B6 2.0 went in for what was probably its first ever brake fluid change, poor thing and I'd asked the indy to do a flush too. Went to pick the car up and he said that the car's check Brake red warning light is permanently on after it gives its standard 3 beeps on ignition start up. It was never there before and the pads were new 2k ago. He said the fluids were all good, pads, even the ABS speed sensor was checked and he even tried to bridge the gap to the wires, all to no avail. Total head scratcher. He does know what he is doing, I can tell that from the plethora of S2/S4/RS6 he has queing up for engine work etc to be done! So he drained it again and repeated, carrying out differing methods of bleeding the system afterwards?? I only knew of one, which is pumping the brake peddle??!! To that end, how many different Bleeding procedures are there? I have since heard that there is also a machine that will do it all in a onner, to include the ABS (or something like that?)
After doing quite a bit of in depth research on varying forums this is what I'm now left with as possible fault and repair action:
1. Wire sensors - New pads?
2. Low battery - new battery? Battery been checked and all OK
3. Could the brake fluid ressie be knacked? Is that a new ressie or just a sensor needed? Could it be possible for an air pocket to be around the sensor making it think that its empty or below minimum?
4. There has never been an ABS/ESP light on since the warning came on.
5. Been told today that there is a sensor on the rear driver side caliper on some older models???
I'm totally fubarred on this one. Like I said before, it was never there before the fluid change and flush was done. Could it have developed from the bleeding procedure?
Feel like just taking it and getting new pads but the underlying fact is that this was never a problem until the flush was done. Should I have had to fork out more money because of this fault and subsequent unsuccessful correction??
All I can think of is is that the sensor in the ressie has gone??? Do I have a brake switch which could be broken..And a Bomb type thingy too??...My power steering liquid isnt that far from empty though?? Does this have a factor on it? Maybe too much reading is sending me mad
Sorry its a long one with loads of questions!! Hopefully someone out there can advise.
Two months of Audi ownership and its doing my bleeding head in.
Many thanks
I J
I have posted this on another forum, so apoligies to those who have seen before.
Please bear with me on this one, dont mean to sound rude......
My B6 2.0 went in for what was probably its first ever brake fluid change, poor thing and I'd asked the indy to do a flush too. Went to pick the car up and he said that the car's check Brake red warning light is permanently on after it gives its standard 3 beeps on ignition start up. It was never there before and the pads were new 2k ago. He said the fluids were all good, pads, even the ABS speed sensor was checked and he even tried to bridge the gap to the wires, all to no avail. Total head scratcher. He does know what he is doing, I can tell that from the plethora of S2/S4/RS6 he has queing up for engine work etc to be done! So he drained it again and repeated, carrying out differing methods of bleeding the system afterwards?? I only knew of one, which is pumping the brake peddle??!! To that end, how many different Bleeding procedures are there? I have since heard that there is also a machine that will do it all in a onner, to include the ABS (or something like that?)
After doing quite a bit of in depth research on varying forums this is what I'm now left with as possible fault and repair action:
1. Wire sensors - New pads?
2. Low battery - new battery? Battery been checked and all OK
3. Could the brake fluid ressie be knacked? Is that a new ressie or just a sensor needed? Could it be possible for an air pocket to be around the sensor making it think that its empty or below minimum?
4. There has never been an ABS/ESP light on since the warning came on.
5. Been told today that there is a sensor on the rear driver side caliper on some older models???
I'm totally fubarred on this one. Like I said before, it was never there before the fluid change and flush was done. Could it have developed from the bleeding procedure?
Feel like just taking it and getting new pads but the underlying fact is that this was never a problem until the flush was done. Should I have had to fork out more money because of this fault and subsequent unsuccessful correction??
All I can think of is is that the sensor in the ressie has gone??? Do I have a brake switch which could be broken..And a Bomb type thingy too??...My power steering liquid isnt that far from empty though?? Does this have a factor on it? Maybe too much reading is sending me mad
Sorry its a long one with loads of questions!! Hopefully someone out there can advise.
Two months of Audi ownership and its doing my bleeding head in.
Many thanks
I J
/new rear speaker
how easy is it to fit a new sensor, or do I need a complete new reservoir??
