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Old 18th July 2016, 18:19   #11
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Old 18th July 2016, 18:46   #12
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ABS sensors are blue and on all 4 corners. Brake pad wear sensors are black and on FRONT and REAR DRIVERS side only. Connectors are in this area, close together. The rear brake pad wear sensor is tucked up under the bumper, drivers side.



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Old 18th July 2016, 20:52   #13
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I believe the OP is trying to locate the point in a main harness where the sensor cable branches. He has to do a complete rewire, more or less. It's not going to be easy I reckon. Needs advice from someone familiar with the wiring harnesses.

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Old 18th July 2016, 22:15   #14
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Indeed, I'm guessing the 2 wires for the front sensor will be present beneath the air con pipes. Soldering a plug onto them so a new sensor can be fitted won't be easy. A 'new' plug can be obtained easy enough from a scrappy. Other posts in this thread have got me doubting what I always thought, the brake pad wear sensors are both on the drivers side, front and rear, aren't they?
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Old 18th July 2016, 22:52   #15
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I believe the OP is trying to locate the point in a main harness where the sensor cable branches. He has to do a complete rewire, more or less. It's not going to be easy I reckon. Needs advice from someone familiar with the wiring harnesses.

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I too after reading this thread came to the same conclusion, therefore decided to pop outside and take a couple of photo's, the black brake connector and it's wiring enter the main loom just under the top engine mount and below the A/C pipes and to the right of the trinary switch.

I think I may have a section in the shed if so I will take a better look tomorrow, if the wiring as not been removed right up to it entering the loom then he may have a chance to link in to it, in the mean time hopefully the pictures will help the OP. Arctic
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Well pretty much what the others have posted, but it may help.




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As you can see the connector and any wire seem to be entirely absent, does it go into the same place on the loom as the ABS as the ABS wires do have some brown tape around them?

In the last picture you can see at some point it had some kind of incident that ripped out a significant part of the wheel arch lining and I can imagine that same event took the brake wear sensor wire with it

There is also that dubious looking connector in the first picture just hanging there back of the engine mount, would this be related?
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- - - does it go into the same place on the loom as the ABS - - -
Looks like it. You can see in the MWMan's images that the wear sensor wires go into the harness alongside the yellow ABS wire. I'd suggest untaping the harness around that point. I'd expect the remnants of the missing wires should appear somewhere under there.

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the point where the ABS wires go into the loom is a long way down so that will be fun! ill give that a go this weekend

on a slightly unrelated note, does anyone recognise what that smaller black connector near the centre in the first picture is, it perplexes me as nothing it connected!
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does anyone recognise what that smaller black connector near the centre in the first picture is, it perplexes me as nothing it connected!
Can't help with identification, but these cars often have odd connectors going nowhere. They're usually part of a common harness which in other models is used for an extras item, etc.

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