Snelly Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 After a wee swim through a deep ford in my 1999 TD5 disco, I've developed a ?sensor fault... the ABS light has come on, accompanied by the TC and HDC amber warning lights. Do you think I have a diccy sensor somewhere and can I check myself or is it a garage job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 May be water in the connectors to the sensors I would try lots of WD40 first but yes you might have to change a sensor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snelly Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 Was just having a poke about underneath, someone has gone mental with underseal, everythings covered in it, including the connectors for the sensors! May nip it to our local landrover specialist garage tomorrow and see if he'll stick it on his diagnostic machine to work out which ones playing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYmon Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Was just having a poke about underneath, someone has gone mental with underseal, everythings covered in it, including the connectors for the sensors! May nip it to our local landrover specialist garage tomorrow and see if he'll stick it on his diagnostic machine to work out which ones playing up. Los Tres Amigos... typical problem. I drove for 14 months with mine. A trip to a local (and VERY EXPENSIVE) garage in Paris fixed the issue. I think they put my ABS module into TEST mode. I didn't have a Nano at the time. Every now and then the Tres Amigos come back, but a full ignition OFF --- ON cycle clears the fault. Never had a real problem since. Nano com says I have a faulty pump - same fault lots of other people mention. Nano people tell me its a faulty earth to the ABS box - sounds about it to me. What you may want to do is clean the Earth return path on all connectors - hell of a job to do. Unplug / plug / unplug / plug each connector, wabbling it a bit and, like Monster said, WD40 them too. That'll clean the contacts (a bit at least). Then get the system reset - this 3-light ABS fault is a "major" fault that is kept in memory and not cleared automatically; unless your ABS is in "test" mode or whatever mine is : Im not 100% sure what the garage did, but as mine re-sets itself, Im not going to change it. I did change a rear hub (that includes the ABS sensor) before I went to the Parisian Garage but they said that the fault was on a front wheel - Im more inclined to believe that it was an earth problem - I did WD40 all connectors and checked all relays (unplug - sand/clean contacts - replace). Good luck ... Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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