Hello everyone, I'm new here and glad I found this forum. I hope we never have all the problems dealt with here, but it's nice to know about this place in case we do.
The symptoms are when braking, there is a strange repeating sound
(kind like when you spring a ruler that's hanging off the edge of a desk) coming from behind the steering wheel in the engine compartment. While this is going on, the car feels like it's skidding on ice, trying to stop, but not really. Pretty scary. After awhile, whatever is trying to work just quits and all the lights come on. The car is more tolerable when this happens.
I guess what I'm going to do, for now, is to pull the fuse out and disable the ABS ala minichopper6hp's reply to here to make it possible to drive the car until it can be fixed properly.
I hope this works for now, cuz it came at a bad time