ABS light wont go out..

[ALPINE]

as titled. Abs light wont go out.

Any ideas? Im away from home so aint got me V com.

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[Broken Byzan]

Could be anything from a wheel sensor seeing you have has the brakes and suspenion apart, a broken CV ring, wirirng fault,ABS ECU failure....

Needs to be Vagcom'd

 

[ALPINE]

hope it aint the latter. brakes seem ok. hoping its just a speed sensor or somthing. 2 kids and 80 miles from home with no brakes would be bad!

 

[Plunky]

I had this mate... Then I read somewhere about the following...
There should be 3 fuses ontop of the battery, try replacing or just fiddling with the left hand side fuse I think it is. After I did this the light went out happy days

 

[A3Tom]

Wheel speed sensor would be my bet mate. The brakes wont fail because of it so you'll be OK driving it for now.

 

[ALPINE]

thanks all.

 

[finesse]

I had this mate... Then I read somewhere about the following...
There should be 3 fuses ontop of the battery, try replacing or just fiddling with the left hand side fuse I think it is. After I did this the light went out happy days

Fuses or connector may have moved out, have a look and give a clean

 

[Broken Byzan]

ABS fails SAFE, carry on sir !

 

[ALPINE]

I have just taken the car out for a test drive without the wife and kids and slammed the brakes on from about 40 mph. the brakes deffo work i also noticed the abs light flickering which would indicate somthing loose. i will report back hopfully with the problem solved.

dont suppose anyone has a picture vof where this speed sensor is do they?

 

[ALPINE]

WOOP WOOP! ITS GONE OUT!!!

 

[Zenin]

mine does this, it will come back on...just you wait.

its a totaly random on and off thing. need to vagcom

 

[danA3T]

My 1.8TS did this, annoyin... was a 2 second fix. It was the sensor on top of the brake fluid reservoir: took it off, unplugged the sensor from the cap, WD40'd it all, put it back together, job done!