Rover 623 P-reg ABS fail

Just been told by my father that his Rover 623 GSi auto has the ABS light permanently on, he's had it checked out at a Rover dealer and they reckon something internal in the ABS control box (?) is causing it. They quoted over £1,000 to get the part and fit it...

He's concerned at both the price and, given the age (of the car), whether he should bother. If it can be done more "cost-effectively" it might be viable. I should add that the MoT expires 2nd August and the road tax needs renewing.

Have had a bit of a google and come up with nothing, someone suggested to him a Honda part might be OK but can't find one for him so the problem has been passed on to me.

Would appreciate any sensible suggestions.

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Mr Guest
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How competent is the Rover dealer? AFAIK a failed wheel sensor can cause the ABS check light to be permanently on, which to replace might cost less than £100. Easy enough to check if you have a DVM. I'd certainly want to know what and how the garage checked the system before believing their diagnosis. Mike.

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Mike G

Mike G wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.cars.maintenance on Wed 27 Jul

2005 21:31:36:

Will try that on Friday evening, just looking for the meter now. Think I read somewhere it should be AC, 0.7-1.0V when spinning by hand. The five minute check they carried out while he waited took nearly two hours so not too sure they're "with it".

Will pass on in case the little garage round the corner from him can try tomorrow to see what they get.

Thanks,

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Mr Guest

we had a similar problem with a rover, turned out to be the abs control unit about £800.00 to put right the car wasn't financially viable so it went to the great scrap yard in the sky, now we are an independent garage with a snap on scanner that found the fault, it didn't diagnose a wheel sensor which normally is a common fault ( offside front) un-like the rover garage that has the up to date equipment, so I wouldn't really dismiss their diagnosis.

if you want it doing you might be able to find a refurbed unit try your local motor factor.

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reg

Given the amount of self checking and safety interlocks on these things, is there any reason not to just get one from a scrappy?

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PC Paul

PC Paul wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.cars.maintenance on Wed 27 Jul

2005 22:25:03:

Thanks both for your comments, will try and find the scrappy's number at work tomorrow and see what they have. The car's only done 44,000 miles but hasn't been used properly for five months due to illness. Would anything have seized in that time?

I have yet to go and look for myself - I may take the opportunity to lightly tap likely looking parts with a medium-sized mallet and see what happens. That's one of our fault-finding techniques for work which some customers go off and try (whilst we send off a warranty replacement request), it makes them feel a lot better for some reason...

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Mr Guest

personally myself id never buy anything brake related from a scarp, others may disagree but that's my own personal preference.

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reg

lol @ Mr Guest

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reg

First thing id check would be each wheel sensor resistance, light on sometimes means open circuit on one corner but i would have thought the garage would spot that easily enough.

However the 620ti has a diagnostic socket for abs related faults, a paper clip would do the job there and read the flashes, look up the fault.... any more questions, try on rovertech, they have a bunch of 620 people over there.

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Mad Ad

Mad Ad wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.cars.maintenance on Thu 28 Jul

2005 03:37:58:

I've signed up and found a lot of useful info there, thanks for the link. If it wasn't hurling it down with rain I would be jamming paper clips around the place tonight to see if I can read the fault code.

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Mr Guest

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