What's up everyone welcome back to the Durban compound if you haven't met me already my name is Devon Durban So today on the channel what we're gonna do is Troubleshoot a check break pad wear sensor Problem you know the indicator on the dash is saying check break pad wear so we're gonna troubleshoot it today I hope to take you through I have no idea what's wrong with it But I'm taking through step by step on things to check and we're gonna figure it out together so stay tuned All right guys, so now we're down in the shop I Have jacked up the passenger side of the car the passenger side of the car is the only place that the sensors are Located for break pad wear now keep in mind. I have a block for safety just in case in the front and back I use a six by six block It's a lot more low profile than any One of your jack stands that you'd come in contact with so it allows low profile cars to be jacked up like this and kept it a decent height So first things first we're going to start on the On the front here. This is your break pad This is your break pads wear sensor here this blue connector So these two wires go down into your break pad and they're essentially a loop so once that loop is Basically worn away by the break pad being worn down The circuit will open and so what that will do is trip your light. So there's a little There's a little wire clip tab whatever you want to call it right here that you need to pry up with maybe a little screwdriver I use a little pick here You can just pry it up enough to get it out of the way or you can take it out completely So I just kind of pry it up out of the way and kind of wedge my pick in there and then you can pull out the connector So we're gonna go ahead and unseat the connector here and Just make sure this is a great time to check your break pad wear so you can see in between here The break pads look pretty darn good We're looking let me see if I can do this all with one hand here, okay? All right, here we go So here's a nice angle here. So this is your break pad media The actual break pad part that wears down these metal pieces are your backing plate So this looks like it's close to Close to the wear point, but it's a little suspect so what we're gonna do right now is shoot this Sensor with the meter here. We're literally just gonna put our meter across the two leads And we're gonna see if it is broken if it's broken then it's definitely worn down to the point where the break pads will need to be replaced So this is obviously the front wheel so all right, let's go ahead and shoot this with the meter and check it out So in order to give you guys the best angle here trying to do all this All right, so you want to check the leads first place the leads directly together and check your Your resistance, okay, we're gonna be on ohms. It said About one ohms resistance. So now I'm gonna come over here to my plug I twisted some safety wire around the end of my end of my lead here to allow me to stab directly down into the connector and hit the exact pin so these are female pins and The wire goes directly down in them. So All right So we have about a hundred and All right, we have about a hundred and thirty ohms here I'm gonna go ahead and call that bad. That's our culprit here 113 120 The ohms will just keep rising. I assume which means that we're basically degraded to the point where It's tripping the computer. So it's safe to say that this break pad is definitely worn past where it should be and This is what's giving our check break pad wear light. So I already know that the break pads in the back are Are new. I just did those in a previous video So I don't suspect that that would be part of the problem. So I think these are due for replacement They're getting close and high Ohms on the sensor is showing that this is definitely had some degradation. So We're gonna go ahead and I will show you what a What a factory sensor What a factory sensor reads so that we'll I'll show you right here on the camera what a factory sensor reads All right guys, so this is a factory sensor brand new So what we're gonna do obviously this for those of you that don't know This little pin sticks down into the Break pad and then as it wears down it will basically cut this Cut this wire that runs through this molded plastic piece. So now I'm gonna go ahead and shoot this for continuity here and I'll show you exactly Just how much continuity this has from a factory sensor here Okay, so as you can see here. This is a factory sensor Okay factory complete sensor here and we're reading about four ohms All right, okay two ohms 2.4 we know that our meter tested 1.0 Before so 2.4 ohms is what you should be looking for for a sensor that is good So the fact that this is degradated and down to 100 or up to 120 ohms of resistance is just on the bitter edge of being a hundred percent cut and so front brake pad replacement All right guys, I hope you like the video of course give me a thumbs up or thumbs down whatever you're into and if you have Click subscribe already. I know you have it because 99.4% of you guys aren't subscribed to the channel So please help me out click that subscribe button ring that bell coming out with videos all the time So I hope you stay tuned and we'll see you guys in the next video