ABS Problem (maybe)?

[wafrederick]

Or it may not come out intact,break off in the wheel bearing.I tried getting one out of an old wheelbearing that was junk and it snapped off.You cannot get the speed sensor aftermarket and is a dealer part only.

[rhandwor]

They have a couple of used ones on ebay do a search.

[j cAT]

Originally Posted by waitingforcolumbus

The used part from the yard may be the old, bad, design. It's life may be used up. It may be defective. It may be the original design was flawed. Any one of those things would cause you the same problem again.
With any luck the new part you buy would have the original defect corrected.
At my job our customer is quick to inform us when our parts have failed. Whenever possible we redesign the part to improve it.
Can you at least have the junkyard test your parts to see if they are good?
Good luck.

my sensors are 8+years old closing in on 120,000mi and they work fine...for 150.oo you can get a bushel of sensors at scrap yard...and if you insist they will give a 30day warrantee just as good as GM new....

if this were a new vehicle i say no, but lets be realistic, how many more years is this guy gonna keep this vehicle....

[Shteets]

My last truck was a 1986 Ford Ranger and my wife had to talk me into buying this 1998 in 2005, like I said "cheap Italian". I'd rather have another half a telephone shoved up my %&%) before I'd give anyone over 30,000.00 for any truck. The truck is in very nice condition. Prices on everything are getting stupid and as long as people pay it it isn't gonna get any better. Napa Auto Parts has a sensor for 100.00, but if it is anything like their pulse boards for the windshield wiper motor forget it. That lasted about two months before it started getting a mind of its own. Anyway I called the Chevy dealer and they needed to know the last 8 digits of the vin number so the sensor would match my transmission. So then how can Napa Auto Parts just hand me one without needing to know the same info (the part would probably suck). Anyway I found a way to get an OEM sensor for 100 even (only about a quarter of a telephone poles worth). Looks like I will have to bend over and pay the hundred and the case will be closed. Bastids.

[Sonny01]

The dealer I went to several years ago said GM doesn't sell the sensors...you have to buy the hub. There are places like NAPA that sell them but I bought a sensor that was used and it works just fine.

[Shteets]

This is the speed sensor that mounts into the transfer case, not a wheel sensor. I just picked up the new one and walked out the door like a penguin due to a sore anus after shelling out the money for the tiny sensor. Case closed, another case of having the customer by the nads. Down with hosing people who are capable of making their own repairs. Thank you all for the help and suggestions.

[j cAT]

Originally Posted by Shteets

This is the speed sensor that mounts into the transfer case, not a wheel sensor. I just picked up the new one and walked out the door like a penguin due to a sore anus after shelling out the money for the tiny sensor. Case closed, another case of having the customer by the nads. Down with hosing people who are capable of making their own repairs. Thank you all for the help and suggestions.

it's people like you that allow these part supplyers to get 100.00 for a 10.00 part....the scrap yard has saved me and many others from a sore ass...where i worked i was considered cheap but i learned from the master cheapo's and they leave me in the dust...pick up stuff at the dump and sell on EBAY.....that's how they operate..

[Shteets]

You must not be from Northern California my friend. Wrecking yards in my neck of the woods charge 50% of what the part costs new and they have little books to look it up in. I think that would change your tune if you were rolling the dice on a $50.00 junk yard part to save half of the price of new. And lots of these guys won't take those types of parts back. So put that in your wisemans pipe and smoke it biotch

[rhandwor]

You must be going to specialty yards I know in the Atlanta area Volvo and Toyota yards are like this but if you check around other yards are cheaper.

[j cAT]

Originally Posted by Shteets

You must not be from Northern California my friend. Wrecking yards in my neck of the woods charge 50% of what the part costs new and they have little books to look it up in. I think that would change your tune if you were rolling the dice on a $50.00 junk yard part to save half of the price of new. And lots of these guys won't take those types of parts back. So put that in your wisemans pipe and smoke it biotch

earthquakes, wild fires, and now this Junkyard rip off's.....I been to CA. and things are very different from the right coast where I'm from.....


There is a scrap yard in my area that has specials....people will get a large hood fill it with parts and they charge 75.oo or so if you can drag it off the property.....



with all that illegal cheap labor in CA. I bet they will break down each vehicle to the basic parts and sell even the used nuts and bolts..on EBAY...

[Shteets]

That is correct. Broke down and catagorized awaiting some poor unsuspecting bastard that may need the part. Im not looking in specialty yards rhanwor. Just random wrecking yards. Pick-N-Pulls might be cheaper but are kind of far away. And your right about the labor, I see all Mexican people working in the wrecking yards, Pick-N-Pull is the only yard left that lets the buyer pull anything off of a car. The rest of em have the part pulled for you or its already on a shelf somewhere. California is a beautiful state but seems to be slowly dividing into the haves and have nots (if you know what I mean).