Antilock brake light came ON?

[DeezNutsForYou]

Yesterday I started my car up and the antilock brake light came on. So I popped my hood and checked my brake fluid. I was low on fluid so I topped it off, and then checked it again. So I turned it off and checked it again, still on. The stupid light is still on today, and I don't know what esle to check. Can someone please tell me what else I can check, or what I have to do to turn the light off.

Thanks for the help

 

[95IndyTSi]

Mine did the same thing about a week ago and is still staying on. I did the same thing w/ my brake fluid with no results... BTW, NICE lookin' car man. I love those wheels and the paint looks awesome

 

[greenmachine]

Mine's been on since i got the car, and it makes a clicking sound every time i start the car. I figure something's just broken down there, and i don't worry about it. As long as my brakes are working fine, i don't care about ABS.

 

[SOURCE1064]

Your abs sensor might have gone bad.

 

[DeezNutsForYou]

how do I chek that, I don't even know were its is.

 

[SOURCE1064]

I took mine to the dealership to get checked out. That's what was wrong with my car when the light started to flicker then it stayed on constantly.

 

[Dan7040]

My ABS light has been on since I got the car (about 9 months). I've bleeded the brakes but haven't tried anything else. The brakes work fine. Let me know if you figure your problem out cause it might finally motivate me do fix mine.

 

[DeezNutsForYou]

has anyone tried locking up there brakes and seeing if the abs still works.

 

[Dan7040]

Yeah I can slam on mine and I don't lock up easily. There was one time that they locked up when I just tapped my brakes, but that was probably black ice (bad snow storm) not my brakes.

 

[SOURCE1064]

They shouldn't lock up at all hence anti-lock brake system. On black ice you should feel tapping in the pedal.

 

[DeezNutsForYou]

I just wiggled, what I thought was the abs sensor, and my light turned off. So I guess its fixed for now.

 

[Dan7040]

Originally posted by SOURCE1064
They shouldn't lock up at all hence anti-lock brake system. On black ice you should feel tapping in the pedal.

I'll get the brake thing sorted out then. Where is the ABS Sensor?

 

[Patryk]

mine is on too. i did a computer read in my automachanics class and said ABS relay malfunction or something. i know where the relay is (in the passanger side under the carpet) but i have not gotten to doing it yet.

 

[96AWDTSI]

There are ABS wheel speed sensors on all 4 wheels, which are very sensitive to voltage changes. I had to change one that went bad as my alternator went bad. You need to check each sensors "impedance", any good multi-meter should do it.

 

[civic619]

a suggestion.. maybe pulling the code the computer threw... that should give you an exact answer as to what made the light go off..rather than playing trial and error...

 

[ChicagoGSX]

Originally posted by civic619
a suggestion.. maybe pulling the code the computer threw... that should give you an exact answer as to what made the light go off..rather than playing trial and error...

Mine is on as well, but my pocketlogger won't pull the code. Where are the wheel speed sensors because I want to get rid of the light.

 

[iamtall77]

mine seemed to work fine until one day the light came on and the ABS "machine" started making noise like it was an air pump for a fish tank. (you know the sound i'm talking about?) i left the car and when i returned, hours later, it worked fine. then about 2 weeks later the light came back on and did the same thing, only this time i left it over night and it drained my battery completely. i just unhooked the damn thing from the fuse link and left it. the brakes work, but i've never tried to lock them up. i assume this is a different problem than above. any suggestions?

 

[remotely_queued]

Originally posted by iamtall77
mine seemed to work fine until one day the light came on and the ABS "machine" started making noise like it was an air pump for a fish tank.

Mine did the exact same thing, dead battery and all. Do codes from the ABS sytem show up on loggers of any kind? Any info would be most welcome.

 

[LTQuick]

even with ABS the wheels can lock up on ice. ABS can only work if at least one wheel has some more traction then the rest. On a pice of ice your ABS thinks you are stopped the the brakes lock up.