Okay, well it's impossible for me to have a problem-free experience with my GP.
Here's the story: When I had my vibration problem, I replaced both front wheel hubs, only to find on the driver's side (front) that someone at one point had evidently ripped the plug off. So they spliced the stock harness wires to the wires coming out of the hub, no plug/connection. So when I replaced the hub, I spliced in a plug from the junkyard so that I wouldn't have to butcher to the new hub's wires. Well that worked great for a while (maybe a month or so).
JUST as I solve the vibration issue, the ABS light and TCS Off light keep coming on. I have re-wired the splice 4 times now, currently they have a butt connector that I have neatly/properly stripped and crimped and heat shrinked.
Well, I'm still having the issue. The lights go out sometimes, come on randomly, sometimes it's just the TCS off light, most of the time it's both lights on.
The funny thing is, when the ABS light is on, the steering stiffens up as if the ABS system disabled magnasteer/variable assist or whatever it is we have that makes it easy to turn at low speeds.
So yeah, tonight I re-wired it as described above with the connectors, lights were still on. So I made sure I had di-electric grease on all the hub connectors just to be safe, and i cranked it up, JUST the TCS off light was on. So I killed it, then started it again and all the lights are off.
Furthermore, on the way to the store, it just comes on randomly. Sometimes I'm braking, other times just driving.
As I Googled the issue, this is what I've found, you can browse through it, but the whole EBMS module thing scares me as that is really expensive. So yall can browse through this: 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ABS & TCS lights on UPDATED FIX [Archive] - Colorado4x4.org Forums
Sooo is my best bet to take it to the dealer to get it scanned? I don't know who has a TechII GM scanner for the abs codes other than the dealer.
And if the lights stay off, are the codes still present?
Other than that, does anyone have any suggestions, solutions, tests I can do, anything?? It's been suggested that I should solder the wires and heatshrink them. But it has worked previously with the crimp connectors so could it make the difference?
**ALSO, I wouldn't give 2 chits about the abs&tcs for now, but since it messes with the steering somehow (EBMS?), I haz to fix it.
Please help!!
Thanks!!