A quick non-vaux techie question (pug 307)

**Faz** · 4th July 2007, 23:26

I'm driving an '02 Pug 307 HDi temporarily and every now and again it brings up the message 'ABS Fault' on the screen following by 'ASP/ESP Fault' and leaves the ABS and 'skid' icon lights on the dash. Any ideas where to start with this or how to sort the problem?

**DennisTheMenace** · 4th July 2007, 23:30

wheel sensors , would be the 1st thing to fail , could try cleaning them , or pulling the battery for 30 mins as it might just be having a fit . tis french afterall...

**ditchp** · 4th July 2007, 23:30

yes mate get out of it, lock it up and walk away from it and never under any circumstance retun to it.............

sorry m8 couldn't resist, my mate had a simlar prob with one of his pug's and thats what he did..............

**Faz** · 4th July 2007, 23:33

Lol @ french jokes. I don't like the car to be honest but it's getting me around till I get myself another Vectra!

Wheel sensors, sounds like a good place to start. I'm not very mechanical with cars, but do you think this is something I could try myself? Take the wheels off one by one and check/clean the sensors?

**nutron** · 4th July 2007, 23:36

It might be the cr*p car warning light; what you need to do, is go and find the person that gave you the car and insert it up their bottom, while demanding a different one.

**Faz** · 4th July 2007, 23:38

Haha. I'm taking the Vaux fanatics don't have a great relationship with the french..

**DennisTheMenace** · 4th July 2007, 23:38

yep , whip the wheel off and clean the sensor , french cars get a lot of stick but they are no less reliable than most others , i had a grand scenic that i did not want to give back , and would have another .

old dears ZX over 100k owned from new , and never put a foot wrong , doubt even a golf would do that , shame she drowned it , when i get round to it , it will be back on the road , 307's are pretty good on the handling front as well.

**nutron** · 4th July 2007, 23:42

Just take it to a car wash and get an under chassis wash

**aos** · 5th July 2007, 00:05

I had a 306 where the abs light came on, and it turned out to be the blocks on the driveshaft (that the sensor detects) had come off. They were kind of clipped around the shaft. It meant a new driveshft, believe it or not (cv joint, the lot!). The new one had the blocks cast onto the shaft, solving the problem. I would have thought they would have designed the cure onto the new 307, but who knows?