What's this?

[Pudsey Bear]

Between the fuel and temp gauges. opped up a few times now, goes off with ign for a while then comes back, my online manual misses it.

 

[mark61]

Brake pad wear?

 

[barryd]

Its the taking photos with your phone while driving warning light

 

[GeoffL]

Your piccy is out of focus, but it looks to be brake pad warning. I found the following from the RAC...

Car dashboard warning lights and symbols guide

What do the car warning lights and symbols on your dashboard mean? Why do they come on? How urgent is the problem? And what you should do when you see them?

www.rac.co.uk

 

[trevskoda]

Yep brakes, something folks should look at every 3 mths or so, both front and back.

 

[mark61]

Yep brakes, something folks should look at every 3 mths or so, both front and back.

We got warning lights for that now.

 

[GeoffL]

Yep brakes, something folks should look at every 3 mths or so, both front and back.

We got warning lights for that now.

No warning lights on my van ... also, it's impossible to check pad thickness with the wheels in place. Because of that, the MOT station (a coach company) I used when I first got the van completely missed that the front pads had worn out. However, the brakes still passed the MOT!
That year, the MOT station couldn't fit in a service and so I used a different garage -- who showed me the pads after removal. All pads had 25% or less of the surface still covered with friction material and one was almost completely bare... ...I now ask the garage to report pad thickness at each annual service!

 

[SimonM]

As the low wear method for the Ducato (I’ll assume Boxer is the same) is only ONE front pad has a wire, it maybe that it is getting just in the edge of low and only contacting intermittently. I’d be checking both sides for certain. I had one time the wire dropped out of the pad and ended up with almost metal pads.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

No kwikfits up here to look at it, brakes feel good at the moment.

 

[SimonM]

No kwikfits up here to look at it, brakes feel good at the moment.

SO DID MINE! It is amazing how well bad brakes can work - until they suddenly don’t.

 

[trevskoda]

We got warning lights for that now.

Not for rear shoes, and by the time the warning light embeded wire hits the disc you may have only hrs to sort & sometimes the pad leaves the metal backing plate.
Pity we dont have a warning light as yet letting us know when the wife is about to spend a lot of our hard erned cash.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

All new two years ago, nsf sized up on M6 so had to get them done, I'm light on my brakes normally, I thought it may be fluid, but it has no sensor and is full anyway.

 

[Wooie1958]

I`m not sure it is the brake wear light, that is on the right hand side in the rev counter.

https://help.indiecampers.com/hc/en-us/articles/28211365859985-Fiat-Ducato-Dashboard-warning-lights-guide

 

[mark61]

Yes, doesn't look exactly like your normal brake wear light, but the pics out of focus and I ain't familiar with Fiats.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

 

[Wooie1958]

Yes that is the brake wear symbol but in a different place

 

[mark61]

Oh, yes that looks like your typical brake pad wear indicator, strange it's in a different position, and strange it ain't in the manual though.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

 

[mark61]

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Brake pad wear are usually amber?

A red would be something requiring immediate attention, like you left your handbrake on.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

It's yellow in reality Mark, it also does come on as part of the self check at ign on.