Browsing: ABS Modules

The VW ID.3 is on a driveway off Woburn Road in Kempston, and the ABS light has been back on for eleven days. It went off three weeks ago. The owner assumed Volkswagen had fixed it remotely, which is what the notification on his phone suggested. He w

The Seat Leon has been parked behind the Anchor pub in Shefford since Tuesday, when the ABS light came on mid-corner and the owner pulled off the road. She has a quote from the Seat dealer in Luton for 950 pounds. The independent garage in Sandy quot

There is a Kia Sportage on a driveway off Ashcroft Road in Stopsley. The ABS light has been on since January, three weeks ago now, and the owner tells me the car stops fine. Both of those things are true, and one of them is not the whole story. I und

The customer was standing on the driveway in Leighton Buzzard holding her phone out before I had even opened the van. The FordPass notification was up on the screen, telling her the ABS module on her 2022 Ford Puma had a fault and recommending she bo

The failure sheet was on the kitchen table at a house off Tavistock Street in Bedford. The owner had failed his MOT the previous afternoon on two ABS fault codes. The testing station’s quote for a new pump and module was clipped to the paperwork. The

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

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 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