I messed my abs (BMW) up when I installed an amp and a power lead to the battery! Don't know how I did, but I did. Never fitted a sound system since.

How on earth did so many drivers stay alive before ABS was invented, or did they just drive within their capabilities, and according to the road conditions?

And what singles Kent out as being worse than anywhere else in the country?

I see it on the news that south east was the worst area. Back before abs there was far less road users causing such damage to our roads.

VCDS will probably pull up hundreds of fault codes now.

as I have already mentioned a couple of times, we are all guessing without the fault codes

More to the point what fault codes did it throw up??

At unit 18 hoping we come accross something here

So did unit18 scan the car??

Some people are genuinely trying to help, but you don't seem to be helping yourself.

Potholes cause the wheel to lock under breaking and being from Kent I suffer the worst from day to day that anybody experiences in the rest of the uk. Please keep posts thread related and not related to your opinions of my driving abilities. I'm sure that when a time came for an emergency breaking procedure you'd hope your abs was working as it should.

Most people wouldn't go over potholes at a speed that would require any form of emergency braking procedure! Trust me, when you have horrific potholes, and live in a city with as many stupidly steep hills as i do you'll get to learn that potholes = slow.

One hint (well two) - If your ABS triggers constantly take it as a hint that you are driving too fast for the road surfaces. Secondly, you activly promote your own driving abilities - the 'bouncing off the limiter whilst driving a clearly screwed car' video shows it, as does your signature (not to mention a lot of your posts) - Don't be upset when other people bring it up as well - remember this is the interwebz, there is always someone who will try and flame/troll you and they love it when people get childish in response

How can you tell he is bouncing off the limiter when his dash is ******?! Am I missing something? Lol

Matt

Jesus christ! Knock it off guys, theres no need to bicker about abs and how anyone drives....it a free country last time i looked.

Ross...... Get the connectors on the dash pod checked as Devon says and see what happens as ive too have seen the above beeping and crazy light thing after a loose connector on the pod.

How can you tell he is bouncing off the limiter when his dash is ******?! Am I missing something? Lol

Matt

1:05 - i used my ears :p (even though the tacho also seems to be working in that portion anyways)

He can drive however he likes, i'm not judging - but saying that ABS is a requirement for driving over potholes and that Kent has the worst potholes in the UK is asking for at least a little bit of internet flamage

The only thing in this scenario is I doubt the dashpod has ever been out in this fabia, so why would the connector be loose (unless a flaky fitting at the factory which has only just started to come loose, maybe from a bit of a shake-up recently )

As the car (aside from elec/dash symptoms) appears to be driving fine, I would be very suspicious of the dash connections, and then failing that, the dash itself being dodgy (easy enough to split open and have a ganders inside if really curious....)

Ah I'm speakerless here lol, just looks like a crazy dash without sound

Matt

Demonstrating the lack of traction control and abs in the vid

Get it bloody scanned.

Get it bloody scanned.

It's been scanned twice...

Ross, where about a ru in Kent? I'm off to a friends possibly on Wednesday evening to tunbridge. Can bring over box of tricks if yours hasn't arrived yet (hint)...

If its an electrical problem first call is check the fuses and connections (1st grounding lines, then power) You don't need to be an electican to do that, it is teadious but its better than paying a garage to do it at £50 an hour.

As per advice given above posts, fuses, battery ground (leads from the battery). Check battery level, check ecu power board thing behind the steering wheel etc.

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Ross, where about a ru in Kent? I'm off to a friends possibly on Wednesday evening to tunbridge. Can bring over box of tricks if yours hasn't arrived yet (hint)...

If its an electrical problem first call is check the fuses and connections (1st grounding lines, then power) You don't need to be an electican to do that, it is teadious but its better than paying a garage to do it at £50 an hour.

As per advice given above posts, fuses, battery ground (leads from the battery). Check battery level, check ecu power board thing behind the steering wheel etc.

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Strood. I've had the codes scanned twice and it comes up with communication error with every thing that shows a light. Ali has checked the back of the instrument cluster and it's all good, he has eliminated the alternator lead and all the fuses. It's said to be the control unit under the steering wheel behind all the plastic. I'm going to swap with Luke and see if his has the problem and mine is sorted then that shows that it will be what he expected. My concern is that this problem only occurs when it's wet witch would eliminate this control unit thingy. Battery is all well as is alternator.

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Strood. I've had the codes scanned twice and it comes up with communication error with every thing that shows a light. Ali has checked the back of the instrument cluster and it's all good, he has eliminated the alternator lead and all the fuses. It's said to be the control unit under the steering wheel behind all the plastic. I'm going to swap with Luke and see if his has the problem and mine is sorted then that shows that it will be what he expected. My concern is that this problem only occurs when it's wet witch would eliminate this control unit thingy. Battery is all well as is alternator.

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Sounds like the reverse of an episode of Red vs Blue....instead of a stupid slow blue thing (Caboose) getting "possesed" by an evil AI (O'Mally).....you have an evil blue thing getting possesed by a stupid slow AI!!!!

Sounds like the reverse of an episode of Red vs Blue....instead of a stupid slow blue thing (Caboose) getting "possesed" by an evil AI (O'Mally).....you have an evil blue thing getting possesed by a stupid slow AI!!!!

I have never been so confused in my life.

I have never been so confused in my life.

Sorry...thought with you being younger than me and into computer games you might know.....google RED vs Blue in Utube.....it's a whole anime series based on Halo games (now in to Halo reach)....mick take and funny!!

Sorry...thought with you being younger than me and into computer games you might know.....google RED vs Blue in Utube.....it's a whole anime series based on Halo games (now in to Halo reach)....mick take and funny!!

Ritteeeeeee

Sorry...thought with you being younger than me and into computer games you might know.....google RED vs Blue in Utube.....it's a whole anime series based on Halo games (now in to Halo reach)....mick take and funny!!

Never heard of it either

How on earth did so many drivers stay alive before ABS was invented, or did they just drive within their capabilities, and according to the road conditions?

Fair comment to some extent, but before ABS came along cars were designed to run without it, ie they had a mechanical way to regulate the front/rear braking distribution. On a modern car with ABS it is the electronics that deal with regulating the front/rear braking distribution, so if your ABS system is faulty it could well mess up the brake force distribution resulting in the rear end locking up before the front with potentially lethal consequences. For that reason I would be very wary of driving a car with a possibly faulty ABS system.

I've had the codes scanned twice and it comes up with communication error with every thing that shows a light. Ali has checked the back of the instrument cluster and it's all good, he has eliminated the alternator lead and all the fuses. It's said to be the control unit under the steering wheel behind all the plastic. I'm going to swap with Luke and see if his has the problem and mine is sorted then that shows that it will be what he expected.

This sounds like progress. Presumably this control unit doesn't need to be coded to the car?

I hope you get to the bottom of this soon, and get it sorted once and for all. In the meantime, if it was my car I wouldn't be using it until it is sorted. With all those warning lights on constantly you would never know if something else (ABS, brake fluid, oil pressure etc) fails with dangerous and/or expensive consequences.

Get it bloody scanned.

It's been scanned twice...

And the results are where?

"Because of that, I'm out"

If you read the quoted section directly above your post he tells you what it said.

If you read the quoted section directly above your post he tells you what it said.

Simples.

Red vs blue ftw by the way halo rules!

If you read the quoted section directly above your post he tells you what it said.

As above... But still, GET IT SCANNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111eleven11