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[TheBoy]

yes sorry,i havent got an inside adjuster switch aparently my headlights are self leveling ones and the motor has aparently gone because a light is on underneath the digital part of the dash i.e where the time and that are.
we have managed to adjust them manualy tonight but they aint high enough and that took soom doing im begining to regret getting this car and the mot is due in 10 days

Right, are you sure the motor has gone?

Is just one low, or both (probably hard to say now you've messed about with them)?

The usual reason is the sensors, one mounted nsf wishbone, and nsr trailing arm, often the little arm becomes detached.

[kickboxer]

a mate of mine went under the car last night and detached the two rear sensors and cleaned them but that didnt clear the problem of the abs/tc light on the dash he couldn't find the ones on the front but he thought that the wheel would have to be removed to get to them.
i was thinking that the abs ecu might need changing because of what some one on this sight said that it might be the fault and costly to repair which made me wonder whether i had done the right thing in getting the car in the first place
the n/s light one was very low and i mean that low that i couldn't see it and the other was about 8 ft in front of the car so he popped out the light and we detached the motor from the light and just tweeked it put it back and then turned on the lights and you could hear it working but the light wasn't moving so he did it manually and the other one too but then when i took it out in the dark to see where the lights were set at it seemed that the faster i went the n/s one seemed to go lower again but it might just have been me as i was very shattered

[Jay w]

i have just suffered the same issues with my '99 elite, it was the ABS ECU.

Vaux want £285+vat for the part, it does require coding to the car, the TC light stays on until it has been recoded.

The ECU also comes with part of the ABS unit, it is fairlt complex piece of kit.

You can get the refurbed, not sure of cost.

My total bill was £25.......i have a warranty with the AA and they picked up the other £435

[kickboxer]

i have just found some1 breaking a mv6 on x same as mine and i have just phoned him to try and get the abs ecu from him but he doesnt know where it is in the engine  nor do i as i dont know anything about cars
who or where can u get a recon abs ecu from just incase this 1 goes belly up

[Jay w]

To be honest if you re getting second hand try and get the whole ABS unit, the ECU is integral.

It is mounted in the left hand inner wing, look down and you will see all the brake pipes  going into it, you cant miss it, honest.

I would imagine you will still have to get the replacement unit coded to the car, but that will only be a visit to someone who has tech 2

[TheBoy]

it needs to have same ident code as yours - the ecus do vary.  Just change ecu (bolted to abs unit), not whole thing

[kickboxer]

thats wot he has said that it has a lot of pipes running from it and that sounds like thte part that he is sending me so it must be the whole unit i will find out more on monday morning when he rings me to confirm it all again

[kickboxer]

its an mv6 ex traffic car the same as mine only a saloon version

[TheBoy]

its an mv6 ex traffic car the same as mine only a saloon version

still needs to be same ident code

[kickboxer]

will this part cure the speedo not working then??

[TheBoy]

will this part cure the speedo not working then??

Speedo, speed sensitive pas, engine ecu are all feed the speed signal from abs/tc ecu

[kickboxer]

so would that need anything doing to it then recalabrating or anything or would it just work straight away again

[TheBoy]

so would that need anything doing to it then recalabrating or anything or would it just work straight away again

Once ECU replaced (and coded to car!) speedo should just work, unless speedo has a seperate fault.

[kickboxer]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
no dont say things like that plz
the mot is due nxt wk and iv been worried about finding this part not anything else

the only thing that i can say is that a couple of wks ago a friend of mine pushed something underneath i think nr the gear box and when i started the car the speedo arm flickered but didnt move after that

sorry to keep boring every1 with this subject.....

[Jay w]

could be that your friend pushed the gearbox vent up again, its a small tube that allows the box to vent, mine keeps dropping down and hanging from the box, i have cable tied it now so it stays in the engine bay

As the Boy has said it should cure the prob, mine was exactly the same, i posed the question on here and the response was the same