P38A ABS Sensors - Front

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DanClarke

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Looking on Rimmer Bros and "Aftermarket" with a WABCO sticker on the cable is <£25.
"OEM" is priced at £120. Apart from rank profiteering, what's the difference, apart from £95?

It just seems so perverse.
Does the aftermarket work 1/5th as well or last 1/5th the time or something?
 
DanClarke said:
Looking on Rimmer Bros and "Aftermarket" with a WABCO sticker on the cable is <£25.
"OEM" is priced at £120. Apart from rank profiteering, what's the difference, apart from £95?

It just seems so perverse.
Does the aftermarket work 1/5th as well or last 1/5th the time or something?
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Abject profiteering i am afraid. Got a couple of front ones in 2015 from a place in Bolton on Ebay for £14.50 each, work just fine. Some of the ridiculous prices Land rover charge have to be seen to be believed. ANR4709 brake pipe, no longer available i believe. Is L/H link pipe from later P38 rear brakes was listed at around £12.00 i think. Opposite side ANR4710 is same thing about twelve inches of brake pipe with two tube nuts. But bent in opposite direction to ANR4709. That is still listed and is priced at £84.40. Totally and utterly ridiculous. Took me about half an hour to make two for less than a quid each. Don't know what they have done there OEM is Wabco.
 
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fitted a genuine landrover abs sensor, it lasted about 4 weeks. bought one off the bay £15.00 see how that goes
 
Curiouser and curiouser.
Today no ABS alarms on a short journey whereas since it first started it has normally popped ABS fault & Traction fault up 3 seconds after starting the engine.
Got all the way home and parked up. Sitting there in neutral and "Bingo" up they came.
So, ABS sensor ordered, and new/used ABS ECU already here. Can't see it being the ECU now really as I would think that once banjaxed it would stay that way.
If Saturday classifies as a working day then the sensor will be here tomorrow. Deep joy ahead.
 
wammers said:
Abject profiteering i am afraid. Got a couple of front ones in 2015 from a place in Bolton on Ebay for £14.50 each, work just fine. Some of the ridiculous prices Land rover charge have to be seen to be believed. ANR4709 brake pipe, no longer available i believe. Is L/H link pipe from later P38 rear brakes was listed at around £12.00 i think. Opposite side ANR4710 is same thing about twelve inches of brake pipe with two tube nuts. But bent in opposite direction to ANR4709. That is still listed and is priced at £84.40. Totally and utterly ridiculous. Took me about half an hour to make two for less than a quid each. Don't know what they have done there OEM is Wabco.
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Yes, did those last time I did the ubiquitous corroded rear pipes over the fuel tank. Took one look at the prices and just made some up got them close as possible to the S shape but did wonder as it is so curved if there was some design reason.
Opportunity for someone as if they were available under a tenner each I would think a lot of people would think it not worth the faff with a flaring tool.
 
Well don't I feel a proper charlie?:mad:
I could not see anything wrong with the ABS sensor and so I went for the suggested alternative of "ABS ECU Replacement".
I got a 2nd hand one for my model year (£125 + P&P). However, even though I was now ready for an ABS ECU replacement I thought, lets change the ruddy ABS Sensor too (as a first step).
The sensor (£34) arrived from Rimmer Bros. before 10AM this morning and so after all my domestic duties were completed I changed it out.
"Stamp Me Stupid" (as my old man used to say). When I pulled the ABS sensor out this time instead of it being clean as a whistle (like the last extraction) a twisted sliver of metal about 5mm long (like a bit of bench-drill swarf) was stuck to the casing. I pulled the copper sleeve out of the abs tube popped the new copper sleeve in and the new ABS sensor.
Took it for a ride and no more "ABS Fault" messages immediately after engine start/ignition on. Although I do still have a "Traction Failure" message on the console.
I am expecting that once I clear the faults with my Nanocom I will be all fixed. So, it looks like I have an ABS/Traction ECU spare to store safely away for that inevitable failure.:D
 
Well done buddy, your traction fault should clear itself, mine did after doing my sphere. Unless you have another fault with the traction control??:eek:
 
DanClarke said:
Well don't I feel a proper charlie?:mad:
When I pulled the ABS sensor out this time instead of it being clean as a whistle (like the last extraction) a twisted sliver of metal about 5mm long (like a bit of bench-drill swarf) was stuck to the casing.
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Hold on, what happens when you remove the swarf, clean the sensor and hole and put the original sensor back (together with the grease as recommended in RAVE)?!
 
@Grrrrrr , those are two very good questions that I did ask myself, but found no immediate answer for.
Inspecting down the ABS sensor tube only revealed a nice clean & shiny Reluctor ring at the bottom and the tube itself was similarly clean and tidy.
So I decided to tip-toe away from the scene and remember it for next time.
I am (at this stage) just happy to have an ABS TC system that isn't going bananas but will keep my "eye" on it for the future.
Have popped the retired Sensor into the ziplock plastic bag the new parts came in and it can go in the "maybe" box of bits.
 
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