Last night (um....Friday the 25th), it just turned cold .. say around 40-50 F here.
Anywho, i just finished watching a movie with some friends, and turned on my car, the ABS light is on.... Its gone on before but just turned off when the car warmed up. I drove to a friend's house about 10 mi away and went in. Came out 4-5 hours later, i can hear the ABS controller/pump thing running. (Passenger side, right by the headlight). Uh oh...
Turn on the car, pop the hood, and look, the controller is STILL running, and the ABS light is STILL on. Turn the car off, the ABS is STILL running. Is it clogged? Any idea what the problem is? (George..... i think THIS is the little shit thats causing my 20mpg maybe?.... making me run my brakes?) The ABS light and controller is always on when car is running, a nd contrtoller/pump is running when the car is off. Tonight im leaving my car "unplugged"... meaning took out the battery. Gonna reset the ECU and see if that works.....Could the ABS pump be clogged maybe? Or is it just running like crazy to make my milage REALLY bad? ..

-Phil
94' P10 G20

P.S. Need to fix this quick...... date tommorrow. Is it possible (or even safe? ... i can pump brakes if the ABS is just bad.....) to drive around town ? Or will driving cause my car to go bonkers?

...... Geo expect a call tommorrow...

I have a 93.5 G20, and my mom took it out about a year ago, comes home, and it's the exact problem that ur describing. So I poped the hood, unhooked the battery, waited for a few, and hooked it back up. Problem gone. Go figure. lol.

sounds fishy........

-Phil

Pull the ABS fuse. :)

And you can do cool stunts like bruce willis in die hard 4 or something now.

there are 2 fuses...

ABS - Sol
ABS - MTR

Which one?

-Phil

I pulled the MTR one, the ABS light goes on, but the pump controller thing doesn't stay on now....... I'm thinking the light goes on just because it detects the ABS is off ;)...... not sure though. Sol = Solenoid?

do both, you cant really go wrong.

I had a problem with my ABS light coming on in cold weather.....I was told by the dealer that the sensors do freeze up and will trigger the ABS light. I would also experience some scary breaking situations in cold weather. The ABS seemed to make a eeeeaaarrrrn noize (My best way to discribe it)when applying the break. The ABS light would come on then go off! This happened only sometimes in cold weather. I was also told this could happen frequently when the ABS sensors go bad.



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