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Post by funksta » Fri May 17, 2024 12:00 pm

The hand brake, tyre pressure and traction control lights all come on at once . The hand brake is fine, tyre pressure is right , the button has no response . Not sure with the traction control . DTC button not making a difference to the feel , if the traction is still kicking in or not . Thought it could have been a low battery at first . Fully charged, no change . Anyone had this problem.
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Post by j3nks79 » Fri May 17, 2024 12:11 pm

Could be a few things.
Plug it in and read codes else it’s guess work
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Post by pvr » Fri May 17, 2024 12:19 pm

You have no ABS by the way at the moment when the lights are on.

Could be as simple as an ABS sensor, but without the codes, it is guesswork.
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Post by funksta » Fri May 17, 2024 3:16 pm

List of codes -
5E5C Run Flat indicator
5D99 DSC sensor CAN fault
5D8C DSC sensor CAN timeout
5D97 DSC sensor, voltage supply
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Post by Zedebee » Fri May 17, 2024 4:40 pm

Do they clear, or do they persist?
That combination of lights seems to be most often associated with the steering angle sensor.
If an ABS sensor has failed or the ABS pump ( :( ) is dodgy you would normally expect the ABS light to come on too.
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Post by pvr » Fri May 17, 2024 4:53 pm

Isn't that the traction control light though?
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Post by funksta » Fri May 17, 2024 5:58 pm

The lights persist after clearing the faults. The steering angle sensor is not showing a fault, it did a while back and just cleared. That was before these recent faults. I had a problem with the ABS sensors last year, I replaced them and all was fine . I'm not very car savy , so this could come from the steering angle sensor. Cheers
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Post by funksta » Fri May 17, 2024 6:21 pm

I looked at the info on the forum about the steering angle sensor, and the fault errors are the same . Thanks Zedbee I'm fingers crossed that that is the problem. Nice one 👍🏼.
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Post by Motionblurrr » Fri May 17, 2024 8:54 pm

I had the same problem and I diagnosed and checked everything the forum told me it could be... but it ended up being the YAW sensor hidden underneath the passenger seat carpet. Cheap and easy fix and the lights have been off now for over a year!

Just thought you should know because I also thought my ABS pump was finished or something. *knocks on wood*

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Post by Zedebee » Fri May 17, 2024 9:04 pm

pvr wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 4:53 pm Isn't that the traction control light though?
Nope. ABS is the one on the left, traction control the one in the middle.
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Post by funksta » Sun May 19, 2024 1:51 pm

Motionblurrr , thanks for the reply I will try this . Do you have the part number by chance . I'll replace this and update you . Cheers Peter.
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Post by j3nks79 » Sun May 19, 2024 2:14 pm

Don’t start throwing parts at it until you have had a proper diagnostic run.
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Post by enuff_zed » Sun May 19, 2024 8:41 pm

Very unusual for the yaw sensor to put the tyre pressure light on?
There is no real correlation between them
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Post by Zowen » Mon May 20, 2024 11:45 am

enuff_zed wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 8:41 pm Very unusual for the yaw sensor to put the tyre pressure light on?
There is no real correlation between them
What I thought too. seen a similar fault and ended up being abs sensor with no abs warning light

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