rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how you can fix ABS problems on your
own car yourself, now I've been a mechanic for the last 51 years and as a professional
mechanic, I have very expensive scan tools, this particular one cost about
five thousand dollars and it accesses data and testing for the anti-lock brake
system of your car, I like showing people how they can fix their own cars, so I
checked out a whole bunch of smaller level scan tools and I found that this
one the Creator seven, it does ABS problems and only cost about a hundred
and twenty dollars if you price around on the internet, you just get the
business end of the plug on the scan tool, go to the bottom where the data port is and
plug in, then it starts analyzing we'll just go in to diagnose, then into scan
this is an Infiniti, now it's going through all the various systems to check
it out and we're working on ABS so what ABS and turn it on, now it's reading
the ABS system, you can get the information off the computer if you need
a computer the data number, you can read the fault data you can erase the fault
data after you fix it and you couldn't read current data as you can see here
and as you can see while we drive around, it shows you the speed of all the speed
sensor to see if there's a problem, if the data is correct or not
so you can find out if you have a bad wheel speed sensor and believe me it's a
hard thing trying to find a scan tool for a hundred and twenty dollars that's
going to give you that kind of information, but of course it doesn't
stop there, here's the ABS module it's all computer run, if there's a problem in
the solenoid or something in there, and it trips the ABS light, this baby can read the
code and explain what the code is, it can show you if the stop lamps working and
if the relays working, if the actuators working, ABS warning light is on or off
if any of the solenoids are on or off and not working, I do have to say that I
never found a scan tool that's about a hundred and twenty dollars when you
price around on the internet, that can do all that stuff with ABS systems, no sure
my $5,000 scan tool it's been able to do that kind of stuff for years, but for
twenty dollars, realized most mechanics these days, professional want to work on
your car, they charge anywhere from a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars
an hour labor for working in your car, so really one hundred and twenty bucks for
a machine that can do all this with ABS and also all the other scan codes, pretty
good deal if you ask me, now even if you're not gonna fix your car yourself
hey, you get one of these hooking up, you can tell the mechanic
oh my left rear wheel sensor is going out, I need that replaced, you get it
fixed correctly, not get ripped off because you know what's wrong you just
don't want to fix it yourself, because realized I'm in many modern cars the
wheel speed sensor it's often built into a wheel bearing assembly, you might have
to change the whole axle assembly to fix it, you might not want to do all that
work yourself, but at least you know what the problem is and then you can price
around to see who is the best price to fix it for you and if you are gonna fix
it yourself you can find the problem, fix the problem, then reset the system with
this so the light goes out, and then road test it and make sure that it's all
working, then to top it all off it's a full scan total too, it does live data does
all kinds of stuff, it will give you all kinds of information to fix things besides your
anti-lock braking, I just decided to make a video about how you can fix your own
ABS with this system, cuz I have to say I haven't found a scan tool out there for
hundred and twenty bucks or even close for that price, that can give you
information on the ABS system like this does, and since this is mechanic Monday
I'm given one of these Creader seven pluses away, to have a chance to win
just place a clean non offensive comment on the youtube comments below and a
winner will be chosen randomly by computer to get a nice scan tool so they
can even fix their own anti-lock brake system problems, and with all these
sirens going on around me, there's something bigger than anti-lock brake
problems going on in my neighborhood today, so if you never want to miss
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