General handbrake light still on !!!!!

[Leicester Cinq]

fingers there is not attitude...rally get what? how can anyone assume i dotn maintain cars? and also asume that i dont regard other people safety...i fount out the pads were bare as they were being changed in a service? so there shows that it was firstly maintained and secondly that as soon as i fount out they bare they were changed

i really dont get what you two are pointing at i am just stating my light stopped coming on after the brakes were changed? whats the problem with that? maybe it is levels or whatever but they seem fine to me, i have only been driving a few months so i am FORMULA 1 MeCHanic.... but i just put down what happened to me? .....why is that such a problem?

 

[allanhelen]

Let me try to explain as us petrol heads sometimes assume people know as much as we do

As your pads wear down the piston in the brake caliper/cylinder piston moves further out to compensate for the wear. This means that more brake fluid is needed at the back of the piston to fill the space that the piston leaves behind it. This fluid comes down the brakelines from the brake fuid resevoir and the level of the fluid starts to gradually fall over time. If the brakes get too warn and a lot of fluid is displaced from the resevoir then this can cause the level float to get to a point where it casues the warning light to trigger. The fluid level at this point may well appear to be above the minimum level line.

When the brakes are replaced the pistons in the calipers/cylinders are pushed back to make room for the thicker pads, this forces the fluid back up the pipes and into the resevoir raising the fluid level and rasing the level float ensuring the light doesn't come on (or goes off).

The warning light is a last gasp warning, brake pads and shoes should be changed well before they cause this to happen. failing to check or have your brakes checked reagularly and allowing them to get so warn is not the most resposible thing to do.

 

[Leicester Cinq]

thank you alan hallen, im trying to explain i didnt know there were worn though,

I was driving along and something started to squeel, not knowing what this was i took it to my garage mechanic man and he said it would be my brakes, i then took it back to him the next day for a service with the brakes....and it then got sorted

i had only had the car a few months before that happened so didnt expect the brakes to go that quick,

ive noticed my brakes fading on my sporting now though(which ive had 2 motnhs) and thats getting serviced this week (so thats the brakes sorted)

i am very responsible in regards to the car running propely as im expecting a baby :slayer: so dont really want to put my girlfriend or buba at risk

Also alan hellan...i didnt know anything about cinqs when i had the first one and i suppose you learn things with driving experience...which is how i noted the braks fading in my sporting.....but htanks for the post above...it actually explains what is meant