Abs Light On After Lowering My Galaxy

[jamesey]

hi ive taken my car to a garage to lower my galaxy they had a right job doing the front struts like i thought they would , i did the rears , now hes done it he says the abs and pad wear lights are on and wont go off , hes checked the connections and said there all sound , anyone any idea what could have happened before i go to pick it up and pay for the work. cheers :)

[bfc1001]

might just need clearing via vag com. i believe if the abs system is disturbed in any way , lets say sensor gets unplugged then plugged back in even though there s nothing wrong with the sensor because the system has sensed a fault , ie lost contact with a sensor it will flag it up on the dash and await to be looked at to make sure there s nothing wrong with the system. happened with mine anyway when i unplugged one , i had to clear it via my lap top even though id plugged it back in and there was nt anything wrong with the system. hope this helps bud.

[chrispb123456]

check the n/s lead hasn't broken out of the plug, this happened to me cos I didn,t unplug it when splitting the strut from the hub.

Didn,t need clearing with vagcom, pad light went off straight away after fitting wires back in plug and abs resets after driving car.

[jamesey]

hi ive put my vagcom in and it came up with error 00283 abs wheel speed signal left front performance range g47 , anyone any ideas where to look for this fault , i cant erase it and ive been over 70 mph , it still lights up , without taking the wheel off i can see 2 wires going from the pads to a wire on the car and theres another wifre plugged into the rear of the caliper area , they all seem to be plugged in. any more help would be great

[cyborg]

Replace Abs sensor there

[jamesey]

it didnt do it before the garage had it , they have put new springs on the front and now its on , i shouldnt have to folk out more on it.

[cyborg]

it didnt do it before the garage had it , they have put new springs on the front and now its on , i shouldnt have to folk out more on it.

 

.....There isnt a lot of give on sensor cable if they forgot to unplug then possible wire has broken inside ....But thats a very school boy error

and rare I would have thought. my money's on sensor packing up.

[seatkid]

Put an ohmmeter on the sensor plug end - the correct value is somewhere on the forum - from memory its something like 1.5kohms or maybe 15kohms. If they "stretched" the cable (forgot to unplug it) then its probably gone open circuit due to internal wire break.

[jamesey]

hi ive looked at the wires and where they plug into the inner wing i took the rubber boot up and the black wire was snapped off from the connection inside the plug , ive bodged it and the light has gone off (both lights) , it seems i cant buy a new loom without buying a sensor aswell as it goes straight into the sensor then splits off to the pad wear plug , does anyone know if a golf wire loom for the abs is the same ill just chopp one of at the scrappy and solder it up , job done lol