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Hello Everyone, so the wife had a couple messages pop up on the center screen today. Numbered them in the order they occurred, not sure they uploaded that way. Anyway error 1 occurred 5min from the house, changed to error 2 and cleared off the screen after about 30 seconds. Error 3 and 4 occurred maybe 15min later just as she was pulling into her work parking lot and stayed on until she shut off the car.
I've done some searching and there were a couple posts that mentioned the SZL, but not sure this any thing to do with turn signals and wipers? Checked the brake fluid level and it is full, also not weeping from any of the bleeder screws. Any suggestions, any other members have this issue?
Drove it around this afternoon and these error messages would randomly pop up and then clear a few minutes later. Tried to unplug the brake fluid reservoir sensor, just to see if anything changed and it didn't make any difference. The error messages still happened.
It kinda makes sense if you think about it. It would appear if it thinks the fluid is low, it disables the ABS, which makes sense as there is a pump on there. That disables the traction control. It disabled my cruise control as well if I remember right (which I assume uses the speed sensor from the ABS.)
And weirdly, in my case you'd think it would tend to come on making a left when the fluid has the potential to move away from the sensor, but it seemed completely random. I'd just intermittently get all those lights and it would bong at me.
i initially thought it wasn't fluid level, but the reservoirs on these cars is so flat it doesn't take much of a low level to trigger the sensor. Mine wasn't below the min mark, but still went off intermittently. I just got lucky I guess.
The sensor isn't expensive, but is a bit annoying to change. Suck out the brake fluid, etc. Curiously, according to newtis you don't have to bleed the brakes afterwards.
Good luck!
Dan
Last edited by navwizard; Jun 7, 2020 at 10:40 AM.
Note on the early Countryman's it was possible to just replace the sensor instead of the entire reservoir to save a couple bucks, but on later cars you can't. Not sure what year your car is.
Note on the early Countryman's it was possible to just replace the sensor instead of the entire reservoir to save a couple bucks, but on later cars you can't. Not sure what year your car is.
I would use real oem to enter your vin to verify the part number. Sometimes the parts cost at the dealer isn't bad, and sometimes it's really expensive I've found.
I've bought from outmotoring and they are good to work with.
realoem is just a diagram, no purchases. You can dump those part numbers into our site. We have the largest data group.
I had never heard of realoem, but I’ve been ordering from you guys for years for my R53, and my VW Corrado. Ordered the reservoir Monday from you guys hopefully it’ll be here Friday so I have something to do this weekend.
Just want to close this out. Replaced the reservoir took it for a drive and no alarms or warnings. Didn’t know about this reverse torx bit but good thing I had a set from working on my sons R53.
Nope, all the pins are clean and there is no corrosion on the brake fluid reservoir level sensor. We don't get much corrosion here in NC. Were you referring to other sensors? Could it be that the new sensor went bad? I'm going to call ECS Tuning this morning to see if there is any warranty on the part.
One thing you could so is remove that connector on the reservoir and jumper the two wires together, then drive around for a bit and see if the warning occurs.
its a simple reed switch, closed when fluid is good, open when it's low.
That would narrow down if the fault is there or somewhere else.
Note if you just pull it off without jumpering you should see the same warnings.
One thing you could so is remove that connector on the reservoir and jumper the two wires together, then drive around for a bit and see if the warning occurs.
its a simple reed switch, closed when fluid is good, open when it's low.
That would narrow down if the fault is there or somewhere else.
Note if you just pull it off without jumpering you should see the same warnings.
cheers!
dan
a jumper has worked. Drove around for a little this afternoon and not once did it pop up these warnings
