Help!!!! ABS Light ....

Morning,

I am starting to lose the will with the ABS light on the Surf. No matter what I do, I cannot get the ABS light to go off when the engine is running. I have checked and tripled checked all of the connections, the brakes physically work great but without the ABS. The light just stays permanently on.

The vehicle is 95% finished but I cannot not pass the IVA test with the ABS light on!!!!

I have spent hours researching the diagnostic trouble codes and hours lying under the dash trying to find the connector behind the glove box. It simply does not exist! Does a 2009 Jimny even have this connector? Can someone post some pictures if they have a 2009 or similar aged Jimny showing this connector? None of the workshop manuals I have relate to the wiring from a 2009 Jimny.

Really need some help!

Thanks

Sam

Is it not to the right of the bonnet release? pointing straight down.

There is a white 3 pin connector on the drivers side with 2 black cables and 1 white but when I have had a fiddle with it, I just blew the fuse for the radio!

Oh 3 pin I have no idea what it is.....I thought you wanted the OBD connector.

No, I'm looking for the ABS diognositc connector.

I've had a mate from a garage call around with a reader and its picked up one error code from the ABS system C1016 brake circuit? Any ideas?

Google says brake light switch.....my brothers ABS warning light was his bulb

Its probably one of the sensors. Do you have a workshop manual as i think there is a way of testing to find out.

Possibly the resistance values of the individual sensors would point to a faulty one? The sensors all unplug from the abs controller which is near the screenwash bottle. I would test them with a multimeter and see if theres any large differences between them. There will be some small differences between them due to wire lengths, but that should be negligible. [plz note - this is a guess but easy to test without replacing anything or spending hours]

All the sensor are working, I have my new scanner arriving tommrrrow so so I can spend a bit more time working on the problem and trying to get the abs light to switch off

Good luck

Maybe PM Rhinoman think he's a bit hot on the electrical side if a Jim

Could be wrong though

Martin, your right on the money!

I had found that page you posted last night, and after some real head scratching and then I started to realise the only thing I had done different to the standard Jimny was fit LED bulbs. I had done this because the rear tail lights are sealed behind a perspex cover and very tricky to access. The idea being LED's have a less likely chance of failing etc! Little did I know it was going to cause weeks of sleepless nights!

A little googling late last night, found several posts about LED lights and ABS's warning lights on Asian cars. It seems that's the ECU carries out a check on the brake light circuit to ensure its working and looks for a slight load from the traditional incandescent bulbs but with LED's its cant pick up any resistance/load and goes into a fault mood switching the ABS light on!!!

Fitted a 50w resistor on the brake light circuit and ABS warning light now switches off!

With out my mates professional code reader, I would never have looked at the LED's and brake light circuit.

Sounds like you have come across this problem before?

Sam

weldon that man