Hello all cats walkers,

Two week ago I heard some scratch noises from my cat rear axle while braking vehicle.

No need too much imagination to understand the reason for, and so, I contacted
"SNG-BARRATT" and order the accurate pads P/N C2P26112 - rear brake pads.

When disassemble both rear wheels and each wheel's caliper, I found the rear right
axle's pads are worn to death and that it caused many deep grooves so a disc engraving,
(to smoothen both disc brake surfaces), was required.

Please see the photos attached and the clip, (https://streamable.com/3t23uy), and my question is:
Ain't such computerized vehicles like we have has an alert mechanism to prevent such a situation
from occurring again in the future or, probably its an alert fault only in my own cat???

 

My 2004 Vanden Plas does not. My 2012 XF does. But regardless of whether or not the brake system has an electronic warning system I prefer to do routine examination of brake function and wear when I rotate tires, typically every 2nd oil/filter change or once a year which ever comes first. There really is no excuse for running pads down to metal given how cheap pads are and how easy it is to check them.

 

How long have you had the car, and who is servicing it ?
Service interval for the X350s (I had two, one after the other), is every year or 10k miles whichever comes first. Inspection of brakes is part of each service.

 

As you can see, there is no wiring at the pads for a sensor. And if, there’s only a wire on one pad. Most of the time at the inside.

 

Just to ad to the conversation, Akebono brake pads go on all my cats, never had a reason to question that decision. when I got my '97 ceramic pads were rare, and Akebono was one of a very few sources. I'm pretty sure they have saved my bacon once or twice. that along with low dust and lasting forever has made me a repeat buyer.