Amber Brake Warning

[Buster72]

Quick question.
I have just had an Amber Brake Warning.
Consulting the manual, it gives a typical vague statement to speak with your dealer.
Before I do this, I wanted to ask whether anyone else has had this warning.
Thank you.

 

[siteguru]

Can you be a bit more descriptive? Are you meaning the ( P ) in the driver display is yellow (amber)? If yes then that usually signifies an auto-hold fault - which usually goes away by itself - and doesn't otherwise cause any other issues.

 

[Buster72]

Can you be a bit more descriptive? Are you meaning the ( P ) in the driver display is yellow (amber)? If yes then that usually signifies an auto-hold fault - which usually goes away by itself - and doesn't otherwise cause any other issues.

Yes. That is exactly what I was meaning.
So have you had this self same thing?
When coming to a stop, I would usually depress the brake pedal to bring on the green P, which would activate the handbrake.
But on this occasion, I had to manually operate the electronic handbrake.
Is that what you had. And if so, was it a one off or did it happen again?

 

[tsedge]

Yes. That is exactly what I was meaning.
So have you had this self same thing?
When coming to a stop, I would usually depress the brake pedal to bring on the green P, which would activate the handbrake.
But on this occasion, I had to manually operate the electronic handbrake.
Is that what you had. And if so, was it a one off or did it happen again?

Yes this is exactly the auto-hold fault. I have had it happen once, was cleared on the next drive.

Can happen:

• If the head unit does not start up properly
• If the brakes are binding due to lack of lubrication (some early cars not greased at all which causes problems).

 

[Buster72]

Yes this is exactly the auto-hold fault. I have had it happen once, was cleared on the next drive.

Can happen:

• If the head unit does not start up properly
• If the brakes are binding due to lack of lubrication (some early cars not greased at all which causes problems).

Thank you.
Head unit?

 

[tsedge]

Thank you.
Head unit?

Infotainment screen - mine was blank once and this triggered both auto-hold and LKA errors, others have had the same thing happen. Simple hold down the home button until it rebooted fixed it.

 

[Buster72]

Infotainment screen - mine was blank once and this triggered both auto-hold and LKA errors, others have had the same thing happen. Simple hold down the home button until it rebooted fixed it.

Understood and thanks again for your help.

 

[Peterpops]

It’s happened to me once and went away on next restart.

 

[AdyC]

Mines 2 weeks old and i had this a couple of days ago. As mentioned disappeared on restart.