does anyone know what this warning light means? I was driving home, went over a rough bit of road & this light came on along with the ABS, nothing in the book. It’s a 2004 Skoda Fabia VRS.

is it the low brake fluid light?

Traction control system 

1 minute ago, nige8021 said:

Traction control system 

I’ve had Traction control come on before after I’ve done a wheel spin isn’t that the little car with the 2 squiggly lines out the back & disappears after 2 seconds? This light stayed on and came on again after I had switched the engine off and turned it back on to take the photo. When I parked I did a couple of sharp stops and the brakes reacted fine.

2 minutes ago, Munfred said:

Excellent thank you so it’s a trip to the garage to get the ABS checked then.

Its stability control or anti skid problem. ESC fault is the description of that warning light.

 

Beat me to it!

Edited 10 September, 20196 yr by VRS_White_Hatch

Screen shot is from the AA app on my phone.

Never seen it myself personally, not even on start up.

Currently having wheels falling off car, abs and ! Lights on mine after my wife stalked it at the weekend

Fault code scan required

10 minutes ago, Munfred said:

Screen shot is from the AA app on my phone.

Never seen it myself personally, not even on start up.

Currently having wheels falling off car, abs and ! Lights on mine after my wife stalked it at the weekend

Doh! Eternally grateful, couldn’t find it anywhere, how ridiculous to have a warning light that’s not in the book, Googled it & couldn’t find it, all I had was people on FB suggesting it was low tyre pressure but I knew it wasn’t that I’ve had years of my tyres going flat & never had a warning light, had to have the alloys resprayed to fix the problem in the end haven’t got tyre pressure monitoring. It wasn’t a particularly bad bit of road tonight either just where some roadworks have been done & not relaid very well. So surprised it’s set something off, hope it’s not expensive to fix, don’t need it right now.

Edited 10 September, 20196 yr by BB78
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8 hours ago, BB78 said:

I was driving home, went over a rough bit of road & this light came on along with the ABS

Is your car lowered?

1 minute ago, RicardoM said:

Is your car lowered?

No

That light comes up on mine every time the battery has been disconnected. My car doesn't even have traction control. Never comes on any other time though.

Just now, TMB said:

That light comes up on mine every time the battery has been disconnected. My car doesn't even have traction control. Never comes on any other time though.

Battery hasn’t been disconnected for quite some time and is relatively new, I think (off the top of my head) I replaced it last year and that would have been when it was  last disconnected.

Just now, BB78 said:

Battery hasn’t been disconnected for quite some time and is relatively new, I think (off the top of my head) I replaced it last year and that would have been when it was  last disconnected.

 

Yeah, best get your codes read.

I think one of your wheel speed sensors has failed, a code scan will reveal which.

1 minute ago, sepulchrave said:

I think one of your wheel speed sensors has failed, a code scan will reveal which.

Sounds about right for the way I drive. 😂

Or possibly a broken DFM wire to the alternator

@BB78 - Or, since no-one has mentioned this yet, one of the strip fuses has gone.

Code scan revealed nothing of significance. Replaced the ABS sensor and that didn’t cure it, the lights go off but come back on whilst the car is on the ramp so they now think it’s an electrical issue with the ABS pump apparently it’s pretty common? You used to be able to replace just the electrics but VW have stopped selling that kit and pumps for my car are on back order or something and are extremely expensive so they say, they reckon only solution is to take the pump off and send it away for repair £460 but I’ll lose the car for atleast 6 days, for this repair company just to test the pump it’s £200 even if they don’t find a fault but I’m just reading something now about leaking windscreens can cause electrical faults (got plenty of them in the car) and they can affect the computer, i’m not suggesting the ABS pump is anywhere near the windscreen but is there any chance the lights coming on is just a computer glitch caused by a leak, I’m not 100% sure the windscreen is leaking but I think it is, my other electrical issues are mainly central locking related but I’ve got a few sensors or warning buzzers that no longer work, the car doesn’t make a sound when it’s below 4 degrees anymore or when I take my seatbelt off and the keys are in the ignition, the warning light doesn’t come on to tell me the back seats are down and the car doesn’t recognise the front passenger door anymore, if I only open that door the car locks itself & resets the alarm, it does it with the boot too sometimes, I’ve got a gremlin it’s all a bit random.

You should investigate the broken alternator wire techie suggested above before firing up your garages random parts cannon!

 

Which ABS sensor did you randomly replace?

They replaced the offside rear ABS sensor but when that didn’t cure it they refunded that. Would they not have checked the alternator as part of their investigation? I gave them the car & said the lights have come on can you do a code read, it was also almost due it’s service so I got that done too, they phoned & said no errors found could be the ABS sensor so we’ve replaced  it but that hasn’t fixed it, lights still coming on whilst it’s on the ramp so we’ll refund the sensor.

they said they know a guy who can look over the electrics of the car for £80 incase it’s a dodgy wire but they think it’s this common fault with the pumps and don’t wanna charge me £80 for this guy to look at it find nothing and the pump has to come off anyway and be sent away. I don’t know. This is the first time in 15 years anything major (in money terms) has gone wrong with the car and they’ve not been able to fix it themselves and give it back to me the same day, it’s not that I think they are having me on it’s more I know the car is doing random things because something is getting wet but £460 is a lot of money and I don’t want to be a mug, is the dfm wire to the alternator something they can easily check? Because they’ll start saying this part has got to come off & it’s the labour involved & this other guy will have to do it and he’ll want my car for a week (apparently he’s an old boy who investigates electrical problems for them in his own time so they can’t say for sure how long I’ll be without my car if he has it) and if the pump then has to be sent away too that’s another 6 days, I’m stuffed without my car, I get severe travel sickness can’t use public transport, can’t be a passenger, can’t take travel sickness tablets as they interact with other meds I’m on, even if I go shopping at the beginning of the week by mid week I need stuff and have no-one I can rely on, they are my little local garage so can’t loan me a car. Is the DFM wire a more common fault? And is that something they should be able to fix? Sorry for all the questions but I have no idea about ABS pumps.

The DFM wire is a very common fault and brings that light on. 

4 minutes ago, Tech1e said:

The DFM wire is a very common fault and brings that light on. 

I’ll phone them tomorrow and ask if that’s what they suspect and that’s the repair they would be sending the pump away for or is it that something the average garage should be able to do?

The DFM wire has nothing to do with the ABS module, it’s the wiring harness between the alternator and the engine ECU. 

Is the engine ECU on the passenger side, I’ve attached an image is it the silver box or roughly where the silver box is in the top right hand corner is? I’m pretty sure that’s getting wet.