As I mentioned, this last bit sounds odd to me. Early ABS systems would lock a wheel and when it was stopped, they'd release it again. Later, as processing power increased, they could monitor wheel speed at a much higher frequency and sense impending lockup, rather than actually waiting for it...

I wouldn't have thought so. If you lock a spinning wheel, you send 100% of the torque to the other wheel whilst the locked one becomes a brake! Surely the better solution is to progressively reduce the speed of the piining one to gradually transfer increasing amounts of torque across the diff...

When you say "wouldn't know when to stop", do you mean, it wouldn't know when to stop braking the wheel that was turning faster? I haven't really thought this through, but surely it wouldn't be that hard for the software to check that both wheels were within "X" RPM of each other and then start...

That's odd, because "locking" a spinning wheel can't serve any useful function when it comes to getting you moving. You'd have thought it would be the more primitive system that locked the wheel, and the more advanced system that could just reduce the speed of it, so as to match it to the speed...

Not sure which ABS pump I have, but it's definitely working. Jayiridium's "Kingy!Toing!KingeyKingy Toing!" noises are quite evident when locking a wheel under braking or when the HDC is "doing its thing". I did wonder whether I had all 4 wheels spinning, so it didn't think anything was amiss...

Yeah... but... £100 for 4 of them with wheels in them and I'm a tightwad! OK, having heard the bloody racket they make, I can see why the seller was getting rid of them with very few miles on - serve me right! My daughter's Mazda 2 is on proper Winter tyres and they are a revelation...

Yes, to be fair the HDC worked pretty well. I tried that too, and felt pretty reassured. But do they REALLY have ESC???! (It's a 2001 TD4). There's no ESC light on the dash, nothing about ESC in the handbook? Yaw Rate Sensors are the bane of my life at work. I've never seen one up in the...

I was thinking more just about TC than the other systems. (To be honest, I didn't even think it had ESC)? However, it's true that the car was going in a (fairly) straight line at the time. In a few places, I did boot it and spin the wheels up to pretty ludicrous speeds, thinking it would...

In the recent snow, I had to undertake a "necessary journey", which gave me the chance to see what it could do in snow. I'm on Event ML698 tyres, with a reasonable amount of tread on them. As anticipated, they were "OK" on the virgin snow, but nothing special on the hard-packed stuff. (In...

Thanks guys. Yes, I did. There's a "how-to" somewhere ion here for that, and it's not quite the same noise this time. @Grumpy, yeah, it's cold and dark outside. This makes me selectively deaf for the moment, but at some point, I think I might have to actually DO something about it!

Hi all, I have a rear suspension squeak / creak noise. Happens with very small suspension movements (e.g. on pretty smooth roads). It sounds like the sort of noise you'd get from a rubber bush. Pressing on the towball with my foot and moving the back of the car up and down by very small...

Possibly a daft suggestion that's already been tried, but might it be possible to write to the gearbox manufacturer and ask for a drawing? Sometimes, large manufacturers are more helpful than you'd think! I agree with Jayiridium that a flexible coupling might be a good idea. That one looks...

I'd be looking for one off a scrapper. I've never had that much luck glueing plastic trims.

Well I've fitted them now. (Must say, a real pleasure of a job compared to swapping bulbs on some more modern cars)! Yes, I'm pretty certain they're an improvement, but as you said in Post#4, not a blinding (if you'll excuse the pun!) transformation over the Alites that came out of it. Thanks...

Thanks Nodge, yes, that's why I was asking. Just wanted to make sure they were conventional E-marked filament bulbs!

Thanks guys. I take it the laser is still a filament bulb, rather than LED or HID, and is E-marked, road legal & all that good stuff?

Well it's that time of year, when the nights are long and chap's thoughts turn to... ...being able to see where he's going! My FL1 lights aren't "awful", but they're not great either. I've just taken a bulb out and it's an "Alite 120%" H4. I'm wondering whether anyone has tried any (legal!)...

We ended up putting a pressure switch into one of the front brake lines, set to a very low pressure (5 Bar or something, might even have been 1 Bar) so that regen couldn't possibly happen unless there was at least a small amount of pressure in the brake line. Also, we had a CAN reader...

I'd have thought 3rd would be OK for most ordinary driving and 2nd for off-road or towing in a hilly area?

Isn't there a suitable female spline on the Leaf that it came out of, to fit on to the motor shaft? We tried making female splined couplers to go between an electric motor and a Peugeot gearbox. It didn't end well! Kept ripping the splines out after a few thousand miles. Not sure why. Some...