Thread: broken sway bar
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Old 06-21-2010, 03:05 PM
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Re: broken sway bar

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Originally Posted by akeeeno View Post
Has anybody had their TRAC OFF, ABS, & PCS lights go off simultaneously because of this?
They are normally off. Do you mean come on?

A broken bar causing excessive lean especially during a turn while braking can activate the yaw and\or lateral accelerometer to activate the PCS which will start pulsing the appropriate brake/wheel., but will not turn on the lights.

Turning the lights on are 'cause of an error detected from one of the various signals it looks at.

Now guessing,... if a corner of the car leans excessively maybe strain on a wheel sensor cable or perhaps lateral stress on a questionable/dying wheel bearing can induce noise or erratic signals into that wheels sensor and trip the system.
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