Igol Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 My 97 Disco has just failed after many weeks of welding and fettling and cursing at the About to Break Soon light. Apart from the blown bulb in the number plate light, ARB link (that I fitted yesterday) pulling the bushes straight through and OS steering play detected at the steering wheel, there was also the dreaded ABS light. No advisories and a comment from the tester that he could see its looked after (well pass the bugger - you know I'll fix it). Anyway not a massive number of expensive jobs, just time consuming. Back to the ABS, I had tapped everything back in and cleared the first few faults off the system and the air gap issue went away and light went out over 5mph - so no current fault but faults stored on the ECU. I've had a look on the government MOT page and if I really couldn't be bothered sticking the paperclip in and out of the link until everything went away could I legitimately claim that as its a characteristic of that particular system it shouldn't be a fail, together with the relevant page of the RAVE manual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPendrey Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Erm, an ABS fault may be characteristic of Discos (it was on my previous one), but the MOT man still needs to see the light go out before he'll pass it. I always had to do the 'paperclip thing' to clear all the faults, tap all the sensors home, and park so that the MOT man only had to drive forward. If he reversed the light wouldn't go out. After a couple of years I got tired of it, and replaced the front sensors and all was good!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwakers Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 if the light stays on when started but goes out after 5mph has been reached... thats normal operation and it should pass... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igol Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 Thats how I read the MOT guide too. Im doing the other work so Ill be clearing them as well. If itd been the only fail then it would have been a quick about turn and argue the toss, although I read somewhere it can store up to 88 codes in tge ECU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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