Ken Long
Member
On our trip to Scotland last week we had the ABS warning go off. We were driving in fairly unpleasant conditions at the time. The photo below was taken at Sandbach services, it was probably only 15 minutes after setting off again that the warning sounded.
After pulling off the M6, switching the engine off and restarting the warning had cleared. The weather improved as we headed north but the warning went off again as we approached Carlisle, having passed the turning for @timmus ironically! Again a stop/start reset it. We pressed on and the warning made no reappearance until we within 500m of our accommodation in Laggan. My brother in law had also had ABS warnings on his 21 plate A class Merc so we wondered if the weather early in the journey had caused an issue with the ABS sensors.
We used the car all week, probably doing about 500 miles with no reoccurence of the issue. On our journey home yesterday, it suddenly came on, just as we were approaching our lunch stop. On setting out again, we completed the rest of the trip (maybe 220 miles) with no issue.
On occasion during the week I had to pull up sharply on less than perfect surfaces and the ABS seemed to work fine. The brakes pulled up evenly and the car at no point felt unstable. Is it likely that the snow/ice has affected the ABS sensor? Where is the ABS sensor mounted? Is it front or rear? I ask because the day before we set out the rear shocks and springs were replaced and I wonder if something was disturbed during that process?
Any insight very gratefully received.
After pulling off the M6, switching the engine off and restarting the warning had cleared. The weather improved as we headed north but the warning went off again as we approached Carlisle, having passed the turning for @timmus ironically! Again a stop/start reset it. We pressed on and the warning made no reappearance until we within 500m of our accommodation in Laggan. My brother in law had also had ABS warnings on his 21 plate A class Merc so we wondered if the weather early in the journey had caused an issue with the ABS sensors.
We used the car all week, probably doing about 500 miles with no reoccurence of the issue. On our journey home yesterday, it suddenly came on, just as we were approaching our lunch stop. On setting out again, we completed the rest of the trip (maybe 220 miles) with no issue.
On occasion during the week I had to pull up sharply on less than perfect surfaces and the ABS seemed to work fine. The brakes pulled up evenly and the car at no point felt unstable. Is it likely that the snow/ice has affected the ABS sensor? Where is the ABS sensor mounted? Is it front or rear? I ask because the day before we set out the rear shocks and springs were replaced and I wonder if something was disturbed during that process?
Any insight very gratefully received.