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Old Apr 20, 2009 | 02:15 PM
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Hi quick question, on the dash the yellow light with the car on. what does it mean ? mine just came on a few days ago. thank you
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Old Apr 20, 2009 | 02:19 PM
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ABS
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Old Apr 20, 2009 | 02:26 PM
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As mentioned ABS, just to point out my stays on, but only because one of the belt had snapped, if you leave the car how it is it will fail the MOT, my way round this has been to remove the bulb for the dash light, i have never had any problems driving with the ABS belt snapped, and even taking the belt out is not accepted in some MOT Stations some over look it.

you could go down the long route and remove the whole ABS unit. the belt is only about £10, but you need to remove the shield etc to fit it.
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Old Apr 20, 2009 | 02:35 PM
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look over the abs see if its working right and the belts there will take u 5 minutes at mostr to look over and as above if no luck just pull the bulb out
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Old Apr 20, 2009 | 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mark bizley
As mentioned ABS, just to point out my stays on, but only because one of the belt had snapped, if you leave the car how it is it will fail the MOT, my way round this has been to remove the bulb for the dash light, i have never had any problems driving with the ABS belt snapped, and even taking the belt out is not accepted in some MOT Stations some over look it.

you could go down the long route and remove the whole ABS unit. the belt is only about £10, but you need to remove the shield etc to fit it.
you cannot fail the mot for having a abs component missing it is just an advise

you can fail for abs lamp not coming on, abs lamp indicating a fault on the system or abs lamp does not follow correct sequence

so if your only bothered about passing the mot join the 2 wires that go to the belttension sensors so the light will function as normal
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