mistertripps
11-17-2007, 11:56 PM
Alright gear-heads, I need your experience. On the way home from the winery this afternoon, we started getting the ASC warning light flashing and the rear brakes engaging whenever we got up close to 80 MPH or hit a pretty good dip in the road. I'd have to back off the accelerator to get it to shut off.
Some things to consider - (1) we just installed new wheels this week changing from 16" to 17", (2) this did not happen on the drive up, even though I was driving in excess of....well, let's just say a bit North of 80 :), (3) we took the car through some pretty winding roads and I did my best to keep up with Stig even though I was in a wagon and (4) when Alan (GCR) checked the car out last week, he said we would need new control arm bushings soon.
Is this possibly related to a suspension issue or do you think it is a wheel speed sensor going bad? We'll take it in for a check-up, but I thought I'd get some opinions first. Is this something urgent that would keep us from driving under normal conditions, or can it wait a bit?
Some things to consider - (1) we just installed new wheels this week changing from 16" to 17", (2) this did not happen on the drive up, even though I was driving in excess of....well, let's just say a bit North of 80 :), (3) we took the car through some pretty winding roads and I did my best to keep up with Stig even though I was in a wagon and (4) when Alan (GCR) checked the car out last week, he said we would need new control arm bushings soon.
Is this possibly related to a suspension issue or do you think it is a wheel speed sensor going bad? We'll take it in for a check-up, but I thought I'd get some opinions first. Is this something urgent that would keep us from driving under normal conditions, or can it wait a bit?