ABS eliminated

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Originally Posted by WormGod

By habit, I always keep quite a bit of distance between me and the car forward anyways. Think it comes from living in DC with a manual tranny and just not wanting to sit on my brakes all the timer. Easier to just coast and torque brake, using that space to slow stop. I adopted this with my VX naturally. Different in an auto however, so at speed, I stay quite a ways away from folks.... in traffic, I tend to stay in a lower gear and keep some distance. Needless to say, I never go through brakes. I will probably go through a tranny first, heh.

Because of this, I have never had to put it to the test with a hard brake. In any weather. I never was happy with the operation of the VX ABS system. It always seemed a step behind me and fought me no matter what I wanted to do. Can't say I miss it.

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X2

The braking distance of the VX is a bit freaky,i also make sure to stay away from the vehicule ahead of me. For a 4000 + pounds truck the brakes aren't the best.

My ABS stoped working couple of months ago.

Question... If you disable the ABS while the controller is "good", would this halt further wear and pause the wear-timeframe, or would it continue to wear and possibly "go out" while electrically disconnected?

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Originally Posted by vt_maverick

So how do you disable the ABS? Pull all the ABS fuses?

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I accidently didnt remove the rows of teeth on the back of the old rotors and swap them onto the new rotors. Somehow that rendered the ABS to stop working. My light stays on but I'm used to it.

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Originally Posted by djvx

I accidently didnt remove the rows of teeth on the back of the old rotors and swap them onto the new rotors. Somehow that rendered the ABS to stop working. My light stays on but I'm used to it.

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Ya, my tone rings are NON existent on my new rotors. When I had my new rotors, pads, and lines put on some months back, they called and told me my ABS was on, before they started. I said I knew and I was not concerned. When I picked it up, they asked if I wanted my old rotors and I said no. Sadly, I didnt realize until a few days later, that I had noticed my rings were still on the old rotors. If I thought about it, I should have had them at least give me those, but whatever. Not like the ABS failure was the rings anyways.

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Originally Posted by deermagnet

...There's only one ABS fuse in the box under the hood.

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What does the second ABS fuse do? (EB-17 40A AND EB-13 20A are both labeled as ABS)

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Yeah, you're right, there is two fuses there. I haven't been in there in so long I thought that larger one was a relay. I always pulled just the small 20A fuse to disable. I guess either one would do it. If the light comes on it's disabled. I can't even remember now which one I cut the wire to for my ABS cut-off switch. I know it was a heavy white wire, so it probably was the larger 40A fuse.

Mark

My VX stops WAY better without the ABS. I am not sure why though. This should not be the case. Driving my old RX-8 without the ABS was like a suicide mission, but the VX seems to be way different. I almost rear ended people when my ABS was actually working and since it broke and I removed the annoying light bulb, nothing but quick stops for me. Just this past week it saved me rear ending someone on Kirby.