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Anti lock and service engine soon lights stay on after brake job

Just had new brakes put in and these two lights still on

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First of all your brake pads on this type of car do not have any kind of elec. sensor's, brake pads have tab's that will rub on your brake rotor's when brake pads are worn and make a ugly squeek sound to let you know you need brake's. I don't know if you all did the work or if a repair shop did, if a repair shop did the work a good tech would have seen both light's on and would have recommended computer diag. the reason the anti-lock light is on is your ABS computer pick up a bad signal from one of your sensor's, possible a wheel speed sensor, and same thing with your engine light computer got bad signal from one of your engine sensor's, one thing you could do is take it in and have computer diag. done and paid for that service or you could take it to almost any auto parts or some one like autozone and they will do a free computer code reading, but don't buy anything, then get back with us here at FixYa with rhe code number's so we can help you with your trouble code's.

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