maccanz Member 41 Member For: 16y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 26/06/12 07:25 AM Posted 26/06/12 07:25 AM Can anybody suggest a cheap ABS Scan tool that will check my wheel speed sensors? I think I might have a dodgy one with my speedo / TC / ABS issue I am having occasionally after my tune.I'm in NZ so will need to purchase one from Ebay.
bionicxr6t05 Legacy Donating Member 2,216 Member For: 15y 2m 9d Gender: Male Posted 26/06/12 07:31 AM Posted 26/06/12 07:31 AM Whats the issue? Ba/fg? Theres no cheap diagnostic tool that will display real time wheel speed signals, snap on ethos is 1500+ that will do it...
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 16y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 26/06/12 07:42 AM Author Posted 26/06/12 07:42 AM (edited) BF with ZFThe same issue that a few guys have had on here:Give the car some gas and some warning lights on the dash come up then the speedo dies and the car goes into some kind of limp mode until you reset the key.Makes no difference if the TC is on or off and it only does it under heavy load every now and again.I have spent hours reading threads on here and have come to these possible reasons:- ABS unit faulty- Wheel speed sensor faulty- Bad battery earth- Bad battery- Coils breaking down- Incorrect gap on plugsI'm not sure if anybody has definitely fixed this problem....I have a Launch C Reader 6:http://www.ebay.com/...d2a5240&vxp=mtrWhich reads standard codes excluding the ABS system so it says the car has no error codes at all.I was thinking of this unit:http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1438.l2649Would this unit read the ABS codes? Edited 26/06/12 07:43 AM by maccanz
bionicxr6t05 Legacy Donating Member 2,216 Member For: 15y 2m 9d Gender: Male Posted 26/06/12 08:11 AM Posted 26/06/12 08:11 AM Not sure about that unit but I had the same issue in a bf f6 with zf about 6 months ago and it was a stuffed battery, under load all the electrolyte in the battery would move to the rear wall and open circuit the battery, put new battery in allgood 1
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 16y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 28/06/12 08:25 AM Author Posted 28/06/12 08:25 AM Any more suggestions from people?
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 16y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 15/08/12 08:23 AM Author Posted 15/08/12 08:23 AM So to close this thread off, turns out it was my battery causing all the speedo issues. I got it checked and it had 80% life in it. Put a new one in it and it has been fine since. Seems these cars are very sensitive with batteries.
riptide Member 733 Member For: 15y 8m 18d Gender: Male Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posted 15/08/12 08:30 AM Posted 15/08/12 08:30 AM Just ask bionicxr6t05 :bowdown: 2
JVK Legacy Donating Member 751 Member For: 20y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: North West Hot Hell,VIC Posted 15/08/12 10:06 AM Posted 15/08/12 10:06 AM He knows his sh*t.
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 20y 7m 23d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 15/08/12 01:18 PM Posted 15/08/12 01:18 PM God of Ford.
45T-XR Legacy Donating Member 417 Member For: 19y 7m Gender: Male Location: Gladstone, Queensland Posted 29/08/12 07:54 PM Posted 29/08/12 07:54 PM Start off making sure the wheel and tyres specs are set in the tune correctly.
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