Browsing: ABS Sensors

The Ford Focus estate was on a driveway in Flitwick, ABS light on, traction control light on. A printed quote from a main dealer was on the kitchen worktop, positioned so I could see it without being told to look. The owner had been told his ABS modu

The Vauxhall Astra was on a shared drive off Marsh Road in Luton, ABS light on the dash. The owner had her arms crossed in the way people stand when they have already been told expensive news by someone else. Her brother-in-law had taken it to a loca

The A6 south of Bedford had been rough all winter, and the owner of this Vauxhall Astra knew exactly which pothole did it. She described it precisely: the lurch, the bang, the ABS light appearing three seconds later like a delayed reaction from the c

There is a 2015 Ford Focus on the road outside a house in Flitwick, and its owner has two quotes on her phone. One is from the Ford dealer in Dunstable for 1,100 pounds. The other is from an independent garage in Houghton Regis for 680 pounds. Both a

The car was a 2019 Audi A6 on a driveway in Biggleswade. The ABS light had been on since before the owner paid a garage to replace the ABS pump two months earlier. The pump had not fixed it. The light came back within a fortnight, and the garage had

The DVSA recall list for April 2026 was open on my phone when I pulled onto a driveway off Dunstable Road in Luton on a Wednesday morning. The owner had forwarded me a letter about her 2022 Kia Sportage. A second letter, from a different manufacturer

The scan tool on the BMW 5 Series in Stopsley was showing C0040, right front wheel speed sensor circuit failure. The live data column beside it was showing a sensor signal that was present and responding. The previous garage had cleared that code twi

The Hyundai ix35 on the driveway off Barton Road in Bedford had an ABS module that had already been replaced once under warranty three years ago. The owner had been told the replacement unit was the fix. There was old brake dust around the nearside r

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

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