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    driving home today, crusing at 60, headlights on.

    ABS off light comes on and so does my highbeams, after 3 seconds they turn off.

    any ideas guys?

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    lol nup no idea.. but

    check the error codes and post em up so we can hopefully pinpoint it a bit better
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    lol bugga

    could possibly be a bad earth or power spike?!?!?! maybe someone has something more to add but im at a loss! sorry mate.
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    jsut quickly, wat is a ffs search, ive seen it a fair bit and not sure wat it is, so some help would b greatly appreciated on where and how to do it, thankz
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    its a 5 stud and u couldnt just weld a new stud on youd have to weld 5 new ones on i may be blonde but im not dumb

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    there was a thread floating around about getting fault codes out of the ABS system. it was in the VT - VX section i think so might not apply to a VR. can't hurt to do a search but
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    Quote Originally Posted by -ToM- View Post
    theres no error codes lol, nothing.

    Like it never happened
    Then 'it' never did. Right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by nicko View Post
    Then 'it' never did. Right?
    uggh, if you say so :S

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    hako created that how-to

    i'll see if i have have it floating round
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    Quote Originally Posted by JEZIMP View Post
    jsut quickly, wat is a ffs search, ive seen it a fair bit and not sure wat it is, so some help would b greatly appreciated on where and how to do it, thankz
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    its a 5 stud and u couldnt just weld a new stud on youd have to weld 5 new ones on i may be blonde but im not dumb

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    Did you take any drugs before getting in the car?..
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    only 3 eccys, half a bag of white, and an oz of ganja. Pretty easy night, so i dont think it was that :P

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    i had a mate with something similar with his vs, hed be cruising along an then all of a sudden everylight inside the car and out would turn into a giant set of strobe lights :S to fix it.... i think he just sold the car

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    Quote Originally Posted by -ToM- View Post
    only 3 eccys, half a bag of white, and an oz of ganja. Pretty easy night, so i dont think it was that :P
    Hmm... nah, couldn't be any of that. Probably some kind of time-space vortex or something more plausible like that
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bode88 View Post
    to fix it.... i think he just sold the car

    love it
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    ok here it is: ABS Error Codes

    kopper69 did it
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    Quote Originally Posted by JEZIMP View Post
    jsut quickly, wat is a ffs search, ive seen it a fair bit and not sure wat it is, so some help would b greatly appreciated on where and how to do it, thankz
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    Quote Originally Posted by -ToM- View Post
    driving home today, crusing at 60, headlights on.

    ABS off light comes on and so does my highbeams, after 3 seconds they turn off.

    any ideas guys?
    Only thing I can think of is that the "ABS OFF" lamp came on and seeing as this indicator light is immediately next to the "HIGHBEAM" lamp, some light leaked thru and partially illuminated the "HIGHBEAM". As it only happened for ~3 seconds and you were travelling at 60kph you probably only quickly scanned the dash and assumed both warning lights were on. Other than that I wouldn't have a clue - they are both on separate circuits drawing power from different fuses so in theory 'never the twain shall meet'.

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    Other option is a short in a loom somwhere, which will take time to develop
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bode88 View Post
    to fix it.... i think he just sold the car



    that is awesome..10/10

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