TheOtherEric

Ditch the sensors if you don't need them. Cut the wires right up next to the plastic plug, then solder the tiny stubs of wire together and cover up with JB Weld or some such epoxy or glue, or heck nothing. I did that years ago and never once thought about wear sensors since. I swap street/track pads regularly so there's no risks for me.

Jeff96-993

I snipped the wires too, and just twisted them together. 9 years later the twists are holding fine.

Plus I'm saving the 3 ounces of weight.

The car spends 2 months up in the air for my tinkering enjoyment, the pads get checked then. I don't need the sensors.

And the weight savings part was just a joke... if my sensors were in good shape when I pulled the pads for my first brake job I'd likely have tie-wrapped the entire thing back like others mentioned. They were in bad shape, so I cut the wire and called it a day.

P-daddy

Trust me $40 is not the question here. I've spent $$$$ on this car in mods already, and I'm not done yet. For those of us that constantly tinker with the car every other day, I highly doubt the pads get overlook. I posted the question to see if I can leave them off without triggering warning light. At my current rate of use, my pads will be good for at least 10 more years

kjr914

You need to do some autocrossing or a few track days. That will take care of your slow pad wear...

Ed Burdell

I soldered and tied my sensors back a few years ago after one failed and gave me a false positive for brake wear.

As for the spiders, having lived with ungodly squeal during this past set of pads and rotors (pagid blues and zimmermans) I went full OE this time, including spiders...I chickened out of deleting them, in other words, lol...

Renaud Bizet

You too !!!
I have ran paged blue on OEM rotors for the past 6 months and drove people crazy with the squeal.
Now that they wore off a bit I was able to put the spiders in but the squeal is not completely gone.
I still get dirty looks at stop signs or red lights

I think next time I might go OEM, but I really like the bite of the pagids.

jscott82

+1 solder and seal

Although..... I kinda like the look of the little red accent on top of the caliper, Id keep them if they are not in your way very often.

P-daddy

And don't forget tires too, Keith

mcipseric

does anyone take off their engine tray?

Sorry..... I am feeling a little punchy this morning

FisterD

I never touch my engine tray. It stays right on the shelf were it belongs.

AOW162435

I'm looking for one (or 4) of these to try something with. If you've removed your sensors and are on your way to the trash can with them, let me know.


Andreas

AOW162435

Bump.


Andreas

Quadcammer

can I ask why you'd remove these? They only do something when they need to, weigh practically nothing, and are dirt cheap.

I just don't see the point in removing them.

TheOtherEric

You're not thinking hard enough.

Ever track your car?

Falcondrivr

What eric said.
Mine were constantly crumbling every time I changed my pads (a lot) and wouldn't fit snugly into the pad anymore. The little metal clips would break off too. So I tied them back out of the way. Problem solved. I change pads so frequently that I can tell when I need new pads anyway.