abs light

[adamsky]

cant get my abs and stability control light to go out, gave the back of the wheels a blast with water and had the wheels off but everything seems fine? (plugs ect) any ideas what else it could be? need it to go out as my mot is out!

[a8hex]

what kind of car?
My X300 would do it sometimes if the battery voltage was a fraction low.
Eventually though the ABS unit failed and I had it replaced, Berkshire Jag spares do recon ones.

[Shar2]

My XK8 had a similar problem, and found it was the N/S/F abs sensor lead had broken near the plug joint.

[adamsky]

its a 3.2 xj8, all wires are fine, had the plugs off and are all clean??? battery seems fine aswell??

[Tame Technician]

Did you run the car with the rear wheels off the ground. This will make it think both fron speed sensors arent working. Should go out as soon as you drive down the road though.

Other wise you are just gonna have to get the codes read to see what it is.

[adamsky]

Tame Technician said:

Did you run the car with the rear wheels off the ground. This will make it think both fron speed sensors arent working. Should go out as soon as you drive down the road though.

Other wise you are just gonna have to get the codes read to see what it is.

I'll try this tommorow mate and let you know how i get on?

how do you read the codes? who does that?

[Tame Technician]

Any one with a code reader. You if you get one. or your local back street garage, or for 0.3 hours at £100/hour your local jaguar dealer.

Did you drive the car yet?? as soon as it does its self test at 10mph or whatever it is, it should put out the light if it was caused by a spurious not actual fault.

[BigNige]

This sometimes happens with my Scorpio - maybe it's a Ford part trait?

Anyway, when it does, I simply reverse about 20yards, put into Park, switch off & back on again and it's fixed.

No idea if it'll help your Jag but well, nothing ventured etc eh?

[yannon]

I had a similar problem with my xj8.Jaguar dealer said it was a loose connection on the f.o.s. abs sensor.They adjusted it and the warning went away.When it reappeared a few weeks later I took the car to an indy who could find no fault after a code check.The problem persisted and I tried another indy,again negative.The m.o.t. was looming and I expected to fail on this but the warning light disappeared.That was about five weeks ago and so far so good as the Jag dealer was talking more than two hundred for a new a.b.s. unit.

[a8hex]

Talk to Berkshire Jag Spares they do recon units.

[adamsky]

Tame Technician said:

Any one with a code reader. You if you get one. or your local back street garage, or for 0.3 hours at £100/hour your local jaguar dealer.

Did you drive the car yet?? as soon as it does its self test at 10mph or whatever it is, it should put out the light if it was caused by a spurious not actual fault.

hi mate sorry its took this long to get back to use, took it a run this morning, still no joy? think im going to take it to the garage? ill also try this putting it into reverse then switching it off, well worth a try. Just want it through its mot. thanks very much for everybodies help

Adam

[Cecil]

buy an OBD II code reader, I got one for £20, cheaper than paying for someone to read it