Thread: ABS not working, no ABS light on dash?

ABS is your enemy on ice and snow anyway. It causes you to slide further.

If there is no indication of ABS being disabled on the DIC I am guessing it is functioning as it should.

You sure the car even has ABS??

Check for wires going to each hub??

Originally Posted by jdpartsman

I see ABS was a $600 option.....how dumb is that not being standard equipment?

Not dumb at all. I wish my car did not have ABS. ABS is something that makes people feel safer, but really only "works" on dry pavement.

Originally Posted by stealthee

Not dumb at all. I wish my car did not have ABS. ABS is something that makes people feel safer, but really only "works" on dry pavement.

The primay goal of ABS is not to stop a car faster but to make it so a driver can still steer while in a paniced braking situation. It also keeps people from locking the brakes up on ice and snow and going into a slide. The only situation it takes longer to stop in is on snow as locked up tires will "plow" snow and pile it in front of the tire slowing the car down faster.

I personally also am not a fan of ABS it's just something else to go wrong on a car but it's good for people who don't know how to drive and pump the brakes instead of locking them up and going into a slide

all you have to do is look at the back of the hub, if theres a wire leading to the hub across the lower control arm, it has abs, no wire, no abs.

under the hood would be lacking the abs pump off to the side of the master cylinder too.

my abs light tripped in the last snow storm, so the abs was off for the last few miles home. i must say it stopped way better with no abs.

ABS is terrible on anything but dry pavement. Loose gravel, dirt, ice, snow, wet leaves, standing water, and the list goes on. ABS makes stopping distance longer on any of those situations.

Originally Posted by jdpartsman

No wires to wheels, no ABS motor on master cylinder....thus no ABS. I will inform my wife on how to drive without ABS. She has been doing it for two years now without knowing it. Thank you all for the help.

so far so good then lol