Browsing: ABS Sensors

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

The Mondeo is on a driveway off the A6 in Shillington, engine cold. The owner points at the dashboard like I need showing. Three months the ABS light has been on, and I am already running through the likely corners. She is not wrong that the car stil

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

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

There is a Vauxhall Astra in the car park of the Flitwick Leisure Centre with an ABS fault that a mobile mechanic worked on three days ago. He replaced the front right wheel speed sensor based on the fault code, charged the owner sixty-five pounds fo

There is a Ford Focus on a driveway in Luton that has already had a wheel speed sensor replaced at a local garage. The ABS light came back on within a fortnight. The owner paid for that sensor, and now he is paying for me, and the light is still on.

There is a BMW 3 Series on a driveway in Dunstable with the ABS light, the DSC light, and the brake warning light all on at once. The owner has a quote from a main dealer for a replacement ABS module and programming – one thousand eight hundred pound