ABS light occasionally on

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ABS light occasionally on

Postby davidr » Sun May 06, 2018 9:54 pm

The ABS light on my 1996 Celebration comes on occasionally. As the car has an OBDII socket I plugged my iCarsoft 930 in and had a look. (Although the iCarsoft doesn't list the XJS, I tell it that the car is an X300 and I get access to a number of readouts such as engine, gearbox and ABS). It told me that the front right wheel sensor was faulty. As the fault comes and goes I thought I'd check the connections and test the resistance.
The connector is on the inner wing as below.
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Opening up the connector and looking at the terminals they looked OK but I thought I'd still put some electrical cleaner in there and blow it through with the airline.
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And then I put the multimeter on the 2 connections to measure the resistance of the sensor.
As you can see, about 1.1k ohms. That led me to wondering what it should be! Does anyone know?
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Re: ABS light occasionally on

Postby davidr » Mon May 07, 2018 9:01 pm

I thought I'd test the left side wheel sensor to see how it compared to the right one.
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So 1096 ohms right and 1101ohms left. The ABS light stayed off today so here's hoping! :D


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