Going to spend a day in the near future testing out my ABS Sensors. My car has resorted back to conventional braking. I have been receiving the TCL/OFF and ABS light for sometime. It's about time I did some investigating. I guess my question to everyone is. If my problem is a ABS sensor, where can I find a great price on the ABS Sensors? I looked at several places online and they seem very costly compared to other Jap/Euro makes. The cheapest I've seen the Fronts are around low $90 range. The Rears were around $200 range. Does that sound about right? Just trying to save a little cash.

Will also try to clean them if they are dirty. That would be the cheapest fix.

Any recomendations would be helpful.
Thanks!

 

The Diamante has a really simple system for detecting wheel spin/lock...

if you take a rear wheel off, and look behind the hub, you will see a 'notched' ring around the shaft (same for front, but the rear could be easier to see)

this notched hub has a 'hall effect' type sensor (a sensor that detects when a magnetic field is close) each 'notch' makes and breaks this field... then (one of) the computers matches the rate and decides if a wheel is slipping or locking...

if you know what a 'square wave' is in electronics (or wiki) this makes much more sense.

hopefully just a matter of an airgun, toothbrush (not your current one) and something like CRC's Brakekleen

jack the car up (using axle stands please) and slide underneath, clean each wheel and check the connection to the sensor (leading edge at rear trailing edge at front i think)

then see if that fixes

Snoops

 

Thanks again for the quick response!
I've been getting a little educated on ABS. So, I do know what you are talking about. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to work on it this weekend. If I do....... I'll post the results. Would love to get off cheap with just cleaning the sensors and rings.