Volkswagon golf 6 abs unit
Discussion
Hi guys
My sons golf has had the famous flashing esp abs lights flashing along with three beeps. I took it to 2 garages and they connected it to a diag machine. Both of them said that its the abs bloc that is faulty.
The problem is that if i buy a new one unit it will need reprogramming by volkswagen.
So im thinking of the following
1 sending it the vw garage and wait for a 1000 plus bill
2 taking off the unit myself and sending it away to be reconditioned so it wont need reprogrammed
3 getting a secondhand unit and buying an autotel etc to do the reprogramming
What would you do? Is the procedure difficult to change a unit? And is it doable at home.
Cheers
My sons golf has had the famous flashing esp abs lights flashing along with three beeps. I took it to 2 garages and they connected it to a diag machine. Both of them said that its the abs bloc that is faulty.
The problem is that if i buy a new one unit it will need reprogramming by volkswagen.
So im thinking of the following
1 sending it the vw garage and wait for a 1000 plus bill
2 taking off the unit myself and sending it away to be reconditioned so it wont need reprogrammed
3 getting a secondhand unit and buying an autotel etc to do the reprogramming
What would you do? Is the procedure difficult to change a unit? And is it doable at home.
Cheers
Before doing any of that, try doing a proper brake fluid change.
It's part of the service routine every two years, but a lot of people (main dealers included) just replace the fluid in the reservoir (and some don't even do that).
If the fluid in the brakes end of the system starts to degrade ( it's the stuff that gets most use over the years) and becomes a different density to the stuff in the reservoir then the sensors in the abs unit flag it up as a faulty abs unit.
I've seen several over the years that a garage diagnosed as needing a new abs unit and which have been fixed by simply doing a proper full fluid change.
It's part of the service routine every two years, but a lot of people (main dealers included) just replace the fluid in the reservoir (and some don't even do that).
If the fluid in the brakes end of the system starts to degrade ( it's the stuff that gets most use over the years) and becomes a different density to the stuff in the reservoir then the sensors in the abs unit flag it up as a faulty abs unit.
I've seen several over the years that a garage diagnosed as needing a new abs unit and which have been fixed by simply doing a proper full fluid change.
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