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Old Jan 4, 2011 | 04:13 AM
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Sensors bad?

My ABS, Low tire pressure, and traction lights keep coming on and off randomly.. Is this common? If so easy fix?? Thanks for your time!
 
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Old Jan 4, 2011 | 05:08 AM
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often traced to a bad wheel speed sensor - sometimes called ABS sensor - easy to replace but ya gots to figure out which one is bad. They simply screw into the hub at each wheel.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2011 | 05:11 AM
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That's probably a result of one of your wheel speed sensors' malfunctioning... had the exact same issue occur to me. Fairly easily to replace, but I'm not certain of a way to determine which one is going bad since you have one for each wheel. When I replaced mine, I knew my front sensors were having issues since the tri-fecta of lights would only occur when I'd do U-turns.

Here is a link for the sensor in question:

http://www.waymotorworks.com/r50-r53...ed-sensor.html

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Old Jan 4, 2011 | 11:37 AM
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The hardest part is getting the sensor out. I couldn't get mine out so I went to the dealer. They broke it and had to drill it out (better them than me.)
 
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Old Jul 15, 2011 | 12:06 PM
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I am having the same problem. I bought a new front sensor from ebay and was going to just install it on one side and through trial and error, see if that's the faulty one but I cannot get the hub plug end of the sensor out. Anyone figured out how to get it out without breaking the one already in there? Does it just pop in/out?
 
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