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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 07:58 AM
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Idiot lights question

I have an 07 escape with 81000 miles. two times in 2 months the ABS Light came on stayed SOLID light, with the 4WD LIGHT BLINKING..Anyone got any ideas what might mean?? SERIOUS problem?? Or just a computor glitch?
 
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 12:19 PM
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Usually a cracked ABS tone ring on one of the front half-shafts. Crawl under there and do a visual inspection.

In this condition, your vehicle is now front-wheel drive only and you will not have ABS-assisted braking, otherwise, everything else will work normally.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 01:30 PM
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Thanks..Not mechanically inclined vehicle guy here,what am I looking for? Is it still ok to drive untill I get it to a ford dealer for fix,if thats the problem?
 
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A dealer is apt to replace the whole half-shaft to the tune of several hundred dollars.

A reasonably handy person with the right $15 part can fix it in an hour or so.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 06:37 PM
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Thanks for your input...
 
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Old Nov 23, 2013 | 02:05 PM
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It was a tone ring. a friend of mine ordered one for around 15.00 and changed it for 40.00,,,all seems ok now..THANKS
 
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I was going say tone ring. Yes they have many many weird things that happen when the tone rings fail like the 4x4 light going off because the abs feeds info to the 4x4 module. Allot of times it wont even throw alight, depends on how they fail. I made a whole video about it and how to fix.
 
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