**** my dam ABS is ******* up, I get some mad skid when I stomped on the brakes. So i got the ABS computer thingy out and chucked it. I replaced the brake line on the right rear brakes, **** its ****** long. Car feels much better now w/o ABS, kinda like my n/a.

 

Do all TII's come with ABS or was it a factory option?

 

I dunno all i know is that ABS was invented in 1987 so older models don't have them

 

It was an option, my 88 TII didnt have it...but my friend Rocky (ALTurbo2) has an 88 also, his has the ABS, which I hear is a BITCH! So Im happy without it

 

I was reading the manual the other day and it said that if your ABS ***** up the warning light will come on and the brakes will just act like normal brakes without ABS

 

As far as I know, ABS was standard on the s5 TII... My ABS light occassionaly comes on, maybe once a month, but I haven't gotten down there to check it out yet. Does anybody know what the most common failure is/was for the ABS system? I'm going to need to start looking into this.

Steve

 

my S4 turbo came with the optional leaking abs pump and I'm missing the paint to prove it.

 

S4 TII - optional
S5 TII - standard
S5 NA - optional

 

there are 2 relays on the pump itself (under a plastic cover) they seem to fail intermittantly.

mike

 

how do you know if you have ABS? I got the fuse for it but not the little light in the idiot lights.

89 GXL

 

go about 40mph, jack on the brakes, if you lock up the tires, no ABS

 

The ABS pump is in the passenger's side firewall area...if there's no pump there, you don't have ABS. I'm glad my car didn't come with it...I would have just taken it off anyway.

 

TurboIIRacer: ABS was invented in the mid '20s. At least there were patents of inventions for mechanical variations of ABS back then. Electronic ABS systems came out in the '70s. They were already on many cars by 1987.


One of these days I'll get rid of my ABS. I never liked ABS. It has it's place, but not in my 7. I took the fuse out ages ago.

 

Is the TII ABS single channel? I would assume it is, and that's a pain in the ***. (all 4 brakes pump even if only 1 is locking up)

 

if you had ABS, you would know it by looking in your engine bay. It's a friggin' huge setup. It blocks access to the ACV when you're trying to work on the passenger side of the engine.

 

then I must not have it.
YAY!
why do I have a fuse then?