Who can diagnose this?

[eliasmavs99]

The symptoms:

Brake Lining light comes on half the time
All brake pads are fine
All rotors meet specifications
Braking is pretty normal (a little brake fade, nothing out of the ordinary)
but,
The tach light doesn't work
and the parking brake light (which is next to the brake lining light) doesn't work

Is this
a. problems with sensors on pads
b. cluster problem
or anything else you might know about

Thanks in advance

[bimmerphile]

a and b and c

a- sensors are frayed or theres a short somewhere. If you to regular maintenance, just pull that lining bulb if you dont want to find the short.

for the tach light- replace the bulb in teh instrument cluster

for the ebrake light: pull the ebrake boot off and at the vertex of the ebrake and the carpet (or in that area) there is a sensor that sits inside a copper "u" on its side that when the ebrake is compressed, that sensor makes contact with the "U" and makes the light come on.

try that.

[eliasmavs99]

Thank you sir for the help. Its a little chilly for car work today, so I'll wait until it warms up and I'll let you know.

[OreoGaborio]

yeah i think Kris has it

Thank you sir for the help. Its a little chilly for car work today, so I'll wait until it warms up and I'll let you know.

you're kidding, right?.... you're in texas... i'm in MA... i worked on my car outside, no garage, for a good 3 hours last week when it was 10 degrees F out, w/ a windchill of -5 :twisted:

talk about chilly :eeek: :woowoo:


BTW, the way i hooked up my brake lining sensors, i ended up having too much slack in em, so they rubbed the inside of the rim, causing them to slowly wear through the insulation... that's the first place i'd check (front left or right rear)

[bimmerphile]

Thank you sir for the help. Its a little chilly for car work today, so I'll wait until it warms up and I'll let you know.

:up:

Good Luck

[eliasmavs99]

[quote="OreoGaborio"]

you're kidding, right?.... you're in texas... i'm in MA... i worked on my car outside, no garage, for a good 3 hours last week when it was 10 degrees F out, w/ a windchill of -5 :twisted:

talk about chilly :eeek: :woowoo:

Yeah, I'm a wus huh? Anything below 50 is too cold for me to enjoy working on the car.
Thanks for the suggestion on the brake lining sensors.

[UNHCLL]

yeah i think Kris has it

Thank you sir for the help. Its a little chilly for car work today, so I'll wait until it warms up and I'll let you know.

you're kidding, right?.... you're in texas... i'm in MA... i worked on my car outside, no garage, for a good 3 hours last week when it was 10 degrees F out, w/ a windchill of -5 :twisted:

Do you want a tissue Petey?
mmmm did Blythe at least warm you up after your stint in the cold? 8)

It was 50F here, sandals, and t-shirt weather!