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Hello all,
Just to let everyone know my ABS problem how it started and how it got fixed and the route in between.
About two months into owning our Santa FE 2.0 TD we went on a 155 + mile journey, the ABS light came on, didn't think anything of it as it went off after the ignition switched off. After a month the light was coming on more regularly and then we started having a mechanical whirring sound which stopped when the brakes were touched.
Our local garage had a look and couldn't see anything wrong. A week or so later the light was regularly on or when off we would have either the noise or a judder when braking. Then we started having the ABS kicking in which is almost like having a poor, juddering brake and takes longer to stop.
Here's the fun part:
Took it to a Hyundai dealer (Swansea, South Wales, UK) who plugged it to a monitor and said that all four ABS sensors were inactive and the gravity sensor had failed. They wanted to do a further diagnosis at a cost of £100 and estimated that the work would be £1500 but we asked them to hold off as it was a huge amount of money.
I did a quick search and found the forum (thank god), and from that learned about checking a few things first with this problem. Blocked the car up and turned each of the wheels slowly and sure enough on visual inspection the ABS 'tone' rings were split.
Phoned up another Hyundai dealer this time in Cardiff (http://www.evanwilliamshyundai.co.uk), said what I thought was wrong, they agreed and said it would have been the first thing they would have checked for FREE. Booked it in, they were really pleasent, helpful and honest.
Total cost £161 which included an oil change, tone rings are £8.77p each. Problem gone, brakes fabulous.
Moral - don't trust everyone, use the internet, use the forum.
Dirtysantos
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Jun 19 2008, 08:14 PM
