Brake Warning Idiot Lite On?
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From: Renaissance Festival TAZ the Wolfdog (R.I.P.)
Brake Warning Idiot Lite On?
After painting my calipers & aftermarket rotors, the idiot lite has come on. Anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it? 
Last edited by Steve02C5; Sep 21, 2004 at 08:09 AM.
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From: Renaissance Festival TAZ the Wolfdog (R.I.P.)
Originally Posted by Steve02C5
After painting my calipers & aftermarket rotors, the idiot lite has come on. Anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it?
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From: That dam place where it rains all the time
Spray them down with some brake cleaner, then disconect the negative batery terminal for a couple minutes and wala! 
BTW, you post at 0300am and want a reply in minutes
BTW, you post at 0300am and want a reply in minutes
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Originally Posted by Steve02C5
I haven't posted in the TECH section for quite sometime and it looks like we've lost all our "real" Vette tech-types to other forums. It's a shame a member can post a question such as mine and not get a single hit - what's this section coming too?
Same first question, as always when warnings come on. Have you run the DIC codes? http://www.c5forum.com/ayc/dtcdic.php
When you bled the brakes, did you have the ignition on? If you did and the system sees an "empty brake pedal" it will trhow a code. But now any codes should have an "H" suffix but not a "C"
How do the brakes feels?
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From: Renaissance Festival TAZ the Wolfdog (R.I.P.)
Originally Posted by USA-VET
Spray them down with some brake cleaner, then disconect the negative batery terminal for a couple minutes and wala!
BTW, you post at 0300am and want a reply in minutes
BTW, you post at 0300am and want a reply in minutes
BTW, I originally posted on the 21st of SEP at 6:55 am.
Richin...No DIC codes and I spray painted the calipers/rotors on the car so there are no brake line issues. Initially the overspray on the rotor pad-surface caused slippage when the brakes were applied until it burned off the rotor and they stop great now. I think the slippage caused the lite to come on, but I don't know if this because a sensor sensed the slippage, or if the paint got on something creating the lite. Thanks for responding.
