maccanz Member 41 Member For: 14y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 26/06/12 07:25 AM Share Posted 26/06/12 07:25 AM Can anybody suggest a cheap ABS Scan tool that will check my wheel speed sensors? I think I might have a dodgy one with my speedo / TC / ABS issue I am having occasionally after my tune.I'm in NZ so will need to purchase one from Ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicxr6t05 Bronze Donating Members 2,216 Member For: 13y 3m 16d Gender: Male Posted 26/06/12 07:31 AM Share Posted 26/06/12 07:31 AM Whats the issue? Ba/fg? Theres no cheap diagnostic tool that will display real time wheel speed signals, snap on ethos is 1500+ that will do it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 14y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 26/06/12 07:42 AM Author Share Posted 26/06/12 07:42 AM (edited) BF with ZFThe same issue that a few guys have had on here:Give the car some gas and some warning lights on the dash come up then the speedo dies and the car goes into some kind of limp mode until you reset the key.Makes no difference if the TC is on or off and it only does it under heavy load every now and again.I have spent hours reading threads on here and have come to these possible reasons:- ABS unit faulty- Wheel speed sensor faulty- Bad battery earth- Bad battery- Coils breaking down- Incorrect gap on plugsI'm not sure if anybody has definitely fixed this problem....I have a Launch C Reader 6:http://www.ebay.com/...d2a5240&vxp=mtrWhich reads standard codes excluding the ABS system so it says the car has no error codes at all.I was thinking of this unit:http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1438.l2649Would this unit read the ABS codes? Edited 26/06/12 07:43 AM by maccanz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicxr6t05 Bronze Donating Members 2,216 Member For: 13y 3m 16d Gender: Male Posted 26/06/12 08:11 AM Share Posted 26/06/12 08:11 AM Not sure about that unit but I had the same issue in a bf f6 with zf about 6 months ago and it was a stuffed battery, under load all the electrolyte in the battery would move to the rear wall and open circuit the battery, put new battery in allgood 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 14y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 28/06/12 08:25 AM Author Share Posted 28/06/12 08:25 AM Any more suggestions from people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maccanz Member 41 Member For: 14y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Wellington, New Zealand Posted 15/08/12 08:23 AM Author Share Posted 15/08/12 08:23 AM So to close this thread off, turns out it was my battery causing all the speedo issues. I got it checked and it had 80% life in it. Put a new one in it and it has been fine since. Seems these cars are very sensitive with batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riptide Member 733 Member For: 13y 9m 25d Gender: Male Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posted 15/08/12 08:30 AM Share Posted 15/08/12 08:30 AM Just ask bionicxr6t05 :bowdown: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVK Silver Donating Members 751 Member For: 18y 10m 25d Gender: Male Location: North West Hot Hell,VIC Posted 15/08/12 10:06 AM Share Posted 15/08/12 10:06 AM He knows his sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 18y 8m 30d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 15/08/12 01:18 PM Share Posted 15/08/12 01:18 PM God of Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45T-XR Donating Members 417 Member For: 17y 8m 6d Gender: Male Location: Gladstone, Queensland Posted 29/08/12 07:54 PM Share Posted 29/08/12 07:54 PM Start off making sure the wheel and tyres specs are set in the tune correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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