In message , Chris J Dixon
writes
alan_m wrote:

I once had disks and pads replaced by a local garage and years later
when replacing the pads myself found that the low pad wires had not been
connected - they had been neatly coiled up and cable tied safely out of
the way.

I had a pad on my Renault 20 wear down to the backing, which made
for a gentle run home. There was a monitoring wire which fed an
indicator, but because it was connected only to the pad on the
easiest side to run the wire, it was also on the side of the
caliper which wore least.

:-(

The instructions for my Mk2 Cortina said (something like) that the brake
pads should be replaced when the thickness was between an 1/8th and
3/32nds of an inch. I always wondered what you should do if the
thickness had worn down to less than 3/32nds of an inch!
--
Ian