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Thread: HELP! TCS, ABS, and RED BRAKE light after changing rear pads and brake sensor

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    HELP! TCS, ABS, and RED BRAKE light after changing rear pads and brake sensor

    Today I changed out my rear brake pads and rear passenger side brake wear sensor on my 2004 325CI Manual Coupe. After putting everything back together I've got my traction control light, orange ABS light and RED BRAKE light on.

    I've looked around the forums before posting and wasn't able to find anything similar to my situation with a RED brake light.

    My brake fluid is at max and my hand brake works just fine now.

    So far I've tried stomping the brake to lock them up(worked for a guy to get ABS to kick in and take the lights off in another thread) spinning the tires for an excessive amount of time(also worked for another guy) and I've restarted the car quite a few times on my way to work.

    If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas on what could've caused this after changing my pads, I'm completely open to hearing them.

    Going into work and wont be able to respond for a while so thanks in advance to anyone who comments!

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    Well the best way to find out is get the ABS/DSC ECU scanned, that will tell you what's wrong for sure.

    My first thought is when you pulled the sensor, you accidentally unplugged the ABS sensor. This will set those lights on, also did you open a bleeder valve?
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