Desperately need help with this one.

I know similar, if not the same faults, have been dealt with here before but nobody seems to like following up whether others advice has actually solved their issues.

 

Sorry for the length of this but it may all be relevant. Please bear with me.

 

I have a 2006 fabia 1.4 tdi.

It all started back in February when the car was going through a phase of not starting for sometimes up to about 6 attempts at a time which was very annoying after a while. 

The final straw was when it finally started in a car park and after reversing then pulling away, the car cut out and refused to start again.

The very very nice man in a yellow van came out to help, charged the car, did a few tests, yada yada, reckoned in his opinion that he would change both crank and cam sensors and get a new battery (as this was screwed due to all of the non starting apparently) to be on the safe side.

So I did all three and solved the issue.

Then after a couple of weeks of no issue, the dash just decides to light up the ABS, brake warning and engine management lights and the fuel gauge became extremely sporadic which sets the low fuel beeper off every time I take a corner (on the country roads where I live, this is the most annoying part) and then later on when I went to take the car to leave outside a mates garage ready for him to take a look at the next day, I find that the speedo has also decided to call it a day.

 

The next day, he's got his code reader on it and it brings up that it can't communicate with the ABS module. So I get a second hand ABS module, replace that and then go to bleed the brakes.

Front brakes bleed fine but the rear drums are a different story. Some joker of a designer has decided not to use 11mm bleed nipples on the drum cylinders as were on the front calipers but to instead use 7mm bleed nipples which as you would expect, do not have much steel to stand up to corrosion and I end up shearing off both rear nipples. Great.

Anyway. Now both rear cylinders have also been replaced and the brakes have now been bled. The code has been cleared and the car has been road tested and the problem has not been resolved. The same ABS module error is still there and all of the dash faults also.

Can I add that I did check the number 6 fuse along with every other fuse on the car to be sure.

 

Can anybody shed any light on this please?

Also, does the ABS module need coding to my ECU? And does anybody know if ALL of these pretty lights and dash faults will go away once this is sorted?

 

Honestly, Its got to the point where I'd be more than happy to see it smouldering away in the morning as this has all dragged on for months now as I work away a lot and don't get a lot of time to do all of this in one go.

 

 

Anyway. Depression aside, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

have you checked the fusible link on the battery and the others there too?

it sounds like you may have an earth problem possibly a corroded wire etc as the abs module works the speedo etc via canbus.

you need to check all the power supplies to the module along with the earth wiring first

Ok thanks I'll have to check the wiring. Are there any typically common places I should start with that you know of?

 

I did check the strip fuses on top of the battery, especially number 6 as I have read up on that before on here, and all other fuses on the car.

 

Do you know if the replacement ABS module needs to be coded to my ECU?