Thread: ABS sensor replacement - Amigos persist

Originally Posted by Tins

Which is something that concerned me when the OP mentioned "splicing" wires. These things are sensitive.

Hi Tins
I completely understand what you mean, and I felt the same way, but someone in my club successfully did this to replace a dud sensor on a prior long-lead conversion.
Even though there's no need to do so, I was careful to match the white wire to white wire, black to black, in the new plugs.
I admit, I have "assumed" that functionally, a Deutsch connector is exactly the same as the original factory plugs, but as noted earlier - although I visually inspected the previous owner's long-lead connection at the SLABS ECU, I have no way of testing it (or knowing if it's a fault with the SLABS ECU for that matter).

I had the error cleared by a workshop but did not get the actual error code, which as onebob suggested, would be helpful, I was just told F/R sensor fault. There's a Nanocom for sale near me, so I might try to grab that and I'll have a bit more firepower to track things down...

Didn't have a single sensor issue with any of my other four D2s, one of which I owned for 11 years, ahh well, just a few more nuggets of experience to go in the Disco-bank, haha.

Cheers!

The nanocom (which I realise you didn't use) incorrectly reports which sensor is faulty, so that's a nice little frustration to add to the mix.

The slabs ECU was upgraded during it's lifetime, if your car is a 2000, you have must likely got a SRD000070 revision.

There's an SRD000150 revision that supports the later cars with the diff lock lever reinstated, and useable without the TC playing up .

It also has a little less aggressive error checking than the early ones, so you MAY find replacing it COULD help.... YMMV...