Hi all,

I'm running a 58 reg Focus 1.8TDci.

Never bee quite sure about my ABS on this car???

I've looked online and on here but not found an answer...

The brakes themselves are fine and work well, but if you need them in an emergency and stamp on them, instead of the usual pedal feedback, you get a sort of funny noise (like a motor whirring fast or gas escaping) and a sort of pathetic little vibration feedback through the pedal?

Oh yeah, and the end results is, you nearly end up in the back of something!

This may be relevant:
Sometimes, after starting the car from cold, just as I head out the end of the drive and brake lightly to look left and right, you hear the same whimpy noise (like somethings re-setting itself)? Doesn't happen every time though.

Ideas anyone?
ABS Pump?
ABS Hydraulics?

Like I say, the actual brakes work fine otherwise, even under heavy breaking, just not when you stamp on them for that all-important emergency stop!!!

Thanks in advance,

Stu

 

Bulb removed?

Clean up all the connections on the sensors?

 

^^^^^^^^^^

Thanks Anthony, let's hope it's something as obvious as this.

It's going into my friendly local mechanic later today - I'll mention this when I drop it off.

Cheers,

Stu

Stu

 

My local mechanic is friendly, but also very busy and SLOW to get back to me.

He's driven the car and agrees the ABS isn't right; doesn't seem to kick in properly and pulls to the right a bit.

He said he'd ask a mate at a Ford Dealer for an opinion - that was last Friday!

Chased him for an answer again this morning - he's getting back to me :-(

I need it sorted before I do a 600mile round trip to the Lakes next week!!!

Anybody any ideas PLEASE?

 

If it's bad in the meantime, either unplug an ABS sensor or remove the fuse for the ABS, that should disable it and allow it to function as normal brakes without fear of the ABS doing something silly until you can get it fixed