… continuing from a service station on the M6, somewhere near Carlisle. The other faults were:

Power steering, but connected with the ABS, and:

…

… the turning lights, so connected with the power steering fault, and thus the ABS module. The motorcar seemed fine in spite of the warning lights (except the stop/start system didn’t function) so I decided to continue the remaining 259 miles to Fabulous Skeg-Vegas rather than spend the rest of the day waiting for the AA to ferry me home.

I got back here to ‘Vegas with no problems (apart from having to look at 5 warning lamps). I left the motorcar switched off for about half an hour before taking the house/dig/cat sitter home - and all 5 faults cleared during the start up routine. It would be pretty unlikely that I have 5 unconnected faults that occurred nearly simultaneously three times over, so my theory is I have a bad ABS sensor on the offside rear wheel, and that creates a chain reaction that cause the other 4 error messages. Does that sound like the most plausible explanation?

By chance the Skoda is booked in to a local independent garage for its annual service and MoT on Monday (5 days time). I’m sure I could fit a new sensor myself, but the sensible plan would seem to be to warn off the garage that a new ABS sensor will be required, and have it fitted during the service and before the MoT next week (I can use the ancient Volvos until then). Does that sound like a sensible plan? Have I missed anything? Has anyone had a similar experience.

Any advice or comments would be much appreciated.

Alan

I've had this a few times on different sides.

The ABS sensors fail and do this - you get a huge chain of alarming messages & DTCs for Brakes, Central Electrics, Steering Assistance, Headlights and so on
Dash warning messages for: Tire Pressure Monitoring, ABS Stabilisation Control (ESC), Stop-Start

The DSC can also start acting up - not changing up gear or dropping down to a lower gear.

The causes are most likely a failed sensor, sensor wiring faults or a broken / very dirty abs ring on the wheel bearing - as the bearing starts to fail it expands and bursts the ring.

best case scenario its the sensor - they are pretty cheap and if your careful and dont bend it about (its cheap plastic) easy diy to replace, youtube has a ween of videos on this.

from experiance dont buy cheap or you'll be replacing it again within the year get oem or similar.

if its the wheel bearing then put it in somewhere to fix as these are an absolute swine to change.

Once its sorted then all the other faults should clear on their own after a drive.