nordberg Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Honestly.....who in their right mind would pay that? Visited the stealers as my red brake warning is becoming more frequent. Asked the service reception for a price and nearly passed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Labour will be the biggest part of that at £100 or so + VAT. Pads should only be about £70 from a dealer, or get some OEM ones from German and Swedish or Euro Car Parts for about half that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 RED brake warning? That's not your pads mate. Pad warning is yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Brake fluid level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordberg Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Service guy assures me the red display is pads and orange is fluid??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Er, nope! RTFM! Orange (yellow) is always warning number 1, red warning means you should stop driving the car! What does the warning look like? Exclaimation mark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordberg Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Yes. Exclamation mark with 3 beeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drinks Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Is it just on start up (intermittently) and then goes away? Have you had the relay update done on your car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordberg Posted October 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 It comes on 90% of the time when starting. It also comes on (very rarely) when driving. Just spoken to another stealer who concurs it is fluid. I checked the fluid and it looks fine? I suppose I will need to book it in and get it looked at. Really fecks me off that the people wanting to charge me the best part of £200 to do a job can't even identify the fault. Useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 On a B7 I think there's a recall or something along those lines that fixes this problem. But it's nothing to do with your pads mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4a5er Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Just to add further confusion, as pads wear, pistons move further out of calipers, fluid level drops. so fluid level warning can indeed indicate pad wear. Chaser... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Totally agree with that however he mentioned that he checked the fluid and it's fine. Welcome to TSN mate, what do you drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4a5er Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Totally agree with that however he mentioned that he checked the fluid and it's fine. Welcome to TSN mate, what do you drive? So he did. I was just thinking of times when braking on steep hills had caused fluid to move away from float in brake reservoir when level is barely above minimum. Quite common on some makes but don't know if Audi suffer with this. Thanks for the welcome. I've just bought my first ever Audi, a 57reg. a4 2.0tdi s line, special edition. Still smiling after three weeks! Chaser... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 So he did.I was just thinking of times when braking on steep hills had caused fluid to move away from float in brake reservoir when level is barely above minimum. Quite common on some makes but don't know if Audi suffer with this. Thanks for the welcome. I've just bought my first ever Audi, a 57reg. a4 2.0tdi s line, special edition. Still smiling after three weeks! Chaser... Nice one, start a thread with some pictures and introduce yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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