Hi my first post here. My daughter drives a skoda fabia 1.9 SDi and was with us at the weekend and reported a strange slow speed pulsing abck through the brake pedal. Checked it out with the AA and looking at the front discs and worn pads decided to change both pads and discs as all worn to the point where they needed changing in the next 6 months. On completing of the work same problem exists. Then looked at rear brakes and found a small leak on the rear off side slave cylinder which needs to be done. Also the two springs that attach to pins that run through the backplate on the other side were so corroded that they had fallen off. They need changing as well.

My questions:

1, although this is happening at very slow (almost walking speed) could his be a fault on the ABS

2, how can you disable the ABS - assume just remove the fuse.

3. ABS light comes on when you switch ignition on but goes out as required? Could there still be a problem.

Any help welcome

Paul barton

This is an ABS fault, I've read about it somewhere before when I was seeking info for my (different) ABS fault on my old Primera. I can't recall the problem though, I have a feeling it might be a cracked ABS ring. Worth checking those anyway, but googling should throw up some info.

The fact the self-test completes OK would point to a problem at the wheel, so I'd definitely start at that end too. The system thinking the wheels are locking when they're not would back that up...

The fact the self-test completes OK would point to a problem at the wheel, so I'd definitely start at that end too. The system thinking the wheels are locking when they're not would back that up...

thank you for that advice - how easy is it to replace the ring once we've diagnosed the faulty sensor?

This can also be caused by a slightly warped brake Disc..

Dean

this may sound like a daft question but hold on

when it is doing it, is it on a poor surfaced road or is it every time regardless of the road?

the reason for asking is that I have noticed on my sdi fabia on particulary poorly surfaced roads at low speeds the absis kicking in beucase it is thinking that the wheels are loosing traction and kicking in due to a wheel hitting a rough bit of road. it has only recently become more obvouse as the roads have rapidly worse after this winter. I know that again I have had on the same piece of road my octi vrs do exactly the same thing at slow speed