"Rear brake pad" warning at 5200 miles

Very strange they should last 100000 miles must be something wrong with brake sensor ,disconnect?you run over something tree branch or some plastic bags ? That what I think .I thing sensor is on passenger side on rear.

 

Are you able / willing to remove the rear passenger side wheel to verify if the pad is indeed worn down? Look in the back of the caliper. The sensor is at the end of the wire. It's a real warning of worn pad if the sensor is touching the brake disc. You can see in this picture that the sensor is far away from the disc.

 

You don't drive with your left foot over the brake, do you?

 

If is break issue you don’t wait to do over weekend you shouldn’t use a car or you will brake Flinstone style on highway doing 75 M/H .Could be nothing or you put your life and anybody else in jeopardy.

 

Why those calipers so clean if those are a pictures of your car or you keep SE in a bedroom not driving!

 

Only have a couple of hundred miles on her so far. It's my wife's car and I'm doing my best not to steal it away from her. I get to give it love in the form of keeping it clean and other little details. Plus I put the Akebonos on, so the old dirty pads were only on for 100 miles or so.

I plan on driving it about 50 miles a week. She drives less. I know, it's sort of a waste of a super ride. However I am taking it to cars and coffee in Bethlehem tomorrow. It's the last one of the year.

 

Bc I keep my SE in garage and so clean I have to do to my wife Subaru on a street the same to make her happy and before I have Porsches she was telling me to kiss those bumpers as a crazy car guy .

 

Prob a broken sensor. It’s on the right rear

 

same issue as NASA using windows XP. The design is and hardware infrastructure is locked in. Only gets updated when there is an architecture change brake

 

I don't think the SE actually used it, since 3G has been outdated technology for some time. Probably a leftover as fallback if 4G can't be used, probably going back to the F56 introduction in 2014. But now that 3G is shut down there's no point in having it as a fallback.

 

After my autocross day, I wondered if i could encourage rotation with some left foot braking.
Nope, hit the brake, you lose all power. Harrumph.