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ABS, Traction, Tyre pressure lights all on dash

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Any help or advice on what is causing my Skoda Octavia VRS 57 plate.

ABS, Traction Control, Tyre pressure lights all on dash??

Low battery?

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Nope car starting fine. I have just had it to garage and they say it’s an electrical fault. Just don’t know where.

Could be faulty abs sensor, abs wiring or the magnetic ring built into the wheel hub.

 

All three rely on the abs system to work.

 

The only way to know the cause without guessing is to scan the car and get the fault code.

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Thanks for this I have an auto electrician coming out to look at it.

Wheel speed sensor would be a good shout for ABS and traction control.

Steering angle sensor would be an option for traction control, maybe ABS only because the system brains would look at steering angle.

Neither would relate to TPMS though.

2 minutes ago, Me-109 said:

Wheel speed sensor would be a good shout for ABS and traction control.

Steering angle sensor would be an option for traction control, maybe ABS only because the system brains would look at steering angle.

Neither would relate to TPMS though.

 

A wheel speed sensor would...

 

There aren't pressure sensors, instead TPMS is done by comparing the rotation of each wheel via the wheel speed sensors.

 

It could also be a corroded reluctor ring that the sensor reads. Ideally, the fault codes need checking with something VAG specific like VCDS.

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It’s been on the computer at the garage and it just says electrical fault. 
 

it happened when we had all the wet weather last week.

18 hours ago, langers2k said:

 

A wheel speed sensor would...

 

There aren't pressure sensors, instead TPMS is done by comparing the rotation of each wheel via the wheel speed sensors.

 

It could also be a corroded reluctor ring that the sensor reads. Ideally, the fault codes need checking with something VAG specific like VCDS.

Well I never!

On the basis that a softening/soft tyre will have a reduced circumference I guess?

Rotation speed would be affected by cornering so either uses the steering angle sensor in the algorithm or takes a much longer snapshot than would be found on a motorway curve.

Could simply be the abs sensor has become disconnected. After replacing a caliper the abs sensor was disconnected resulting in the plastic clip on it breaking. This resulted in the traction control, power steering and abs lights showing on the dash. Pushing the sensor in, although it wasn't secured anymore by the clip, removed all these fault lights. It's been ok since I was expected it to disconnect again as it's not secured by the clip anymore but it's holding up. So  go round each sensor and make sure they are pushed in tight this may fix your error.

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