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 Vauxhall Astra had been sitting on a driveway in Stopsley for eleven days before I got there. Not because I was slow. The three garages the owner had tried before calling me were all quoting four to six weeks for a diagnostic slot. He had a brake
I was pulling a corroded wheel speed sensor from a Tiguan off Woburn Road in Ampthill when the Harley recall notification landed on my phone. The connector had been fighting me for ten minutes, the kind of fight UK road salt wins every time it gets i
Freightliner ABS code 136 is the SAE J1587 Message Identifier (MID) for the Antilock Brake System controller. It identifies the ABS ECU as the source of a stored fault. The complete fault
The first thing the owner told me on the driveway in Sandy was that there was no warning light. The second thing was that the car had taken twice the normal stopping distance during a near-miss on the A1 the week before. No code, no warning light, bu
To reset an ABS brake light, use an OBDII scanner to clear stored fault codes after repairing the underlying fault. The ABS light returns if the fault is not resolved first. 4
The Vauxhall Astra had been sitting in a garage in Dunstable for nine days when the owner called me. It came home with no fault fixed and a written estimate for a new ABS pump that nobody had confirmed was the cause. I drove out to his driveway in Ho
The message came through at half seven, a Volkswagen Tiguan in Flitwick, owner had two weeks until MOT and the dashboard looked like a Christmas tree. He’d already been to a main dealer, left with a quote for a new forward-facing camera at five hundr
Bendix ABS blink codes are 2digit diagnostic codes output through the ABS warning lamp on commercial trucks and trailers. The first digit identifies the system component. The second digit identifies the fault
The call came in while I was on my knees in a pub car park in Ampthill, disc dust still warm on my hands from the job before. I was midway through a wheel speed sensor replacement on a Golf, C0040, left front, corroded connector that had fought me fo
The Prius is on a driveway in Ampthill, and the brake warning light came on during regenerative braking at a roundabout on the A507. The owner has already had it code-read at a fast-fit. The printed sheet says ABS control module fault, replacement un