Author: Jimmy O'Riley
Jimmy O'Riley
Jimmy O'Riley is a UK-based mobile mechanic and automotive diagnostic specialist operating out of Bedfordshire, England. He founded O'Rileys Autos in 2011 with a focus on bringing professional vehicle repairs directly to customers at their homes and workplaces. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Jimmy specializes in ABS diagnostics, brake system repairs, diesel emissions faults, and DPF cleaning. He is recognized across the UK and Ireland as one of the leading specialists in vehicle braking and emissions systems, earning the title "The DPF King" from his growing online audience. Jimmy documents real-world automotive repairs through his YouTube channel, which has accumulated over 97,000 subscribers and nearly 2,000 published repair videos. His content covers ABS fault diagnosis, wheel speed sensor testing, brake module replacement, and roadside repair procedures across a wide range of vehicle makes and models. He is active on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook under O'Rileys Autos.
The Three Series was on a driveway in Sandy, ABS light on for three weeks. The owner’s previous garage had told him there was nothing more they could do without BMW’s own diagnostic software. That is a sentence I have heard in various forms across fo
Testing an ABS module involves 5 methods: reading fault codes with a bidirectional scan tool, checking power and ground circuits with a multimeter, reviewing live wheel speed data, performing actuator tests, and
The Focus had been driven to me on a Tuesday morning from a road in Leighton Buzzard, ABS light on for eight months, owner convinced it still stopped fine. She had a point in the sense that she had been driving it for eight months and nothing had hap
Cleaning an ABS sensor involves removing it from the wheel hub, applying electrical contact cleaner to the sensor tip and body, wiping with a lintfree cloth, and cleaning the tone ring. The
The Golf was on a driveway on Hitchin Road in Stotfold, ABS light steady on the dash. The owner had a quote from a Volkswagen dealership for eight hundred and twenty pounds, covering an ABS module and the labour to fit it. I had the codes on screen b
The Astra was on a driveway in Flitwick with its ABS light back on, three weeks after another technician had replaced the right rear wheel speed sensor. The new sensor was sitting there clean and obviously recent. The light had returned within a fort
An ABS light that goes on and off indicates an intermittent fault in the antilock braking system. The 6 most common causes include a faulty wheel speed sensor, corroded wiring, a cracked
The ID.3 was pulled into a layby on the A6 south of Shillington, hazards going, owner standing beside it looking at his phone when I arrived. He had been driving it for eleven months, twenty-eight thousand miles, and the ABS light had come on hard at
The Leaf was on a driveway in Biggleswade, three years old and fifty-eight thousand miles on the clock, ABS light sitting steady on the dash. When I pulled the front wheels off to check the calipers, the pads were barely touched. There was almost no
Not all cars have ABS. In the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) mandated ABS on all new passenger vehicles by model year 2013. Vehicles manufactured before this requirement