Finally Result Abs/handbrake light All Sorted

[xionsolaris]

Well Fitted two new front sensors and found one reason why the fault,upon removing the nsf wheel i had a quick look over and realised the tip of the sensor was shot and there was No abs ring only the 3 securing bolts  so after some thought i ended up at a breakers to find a new bottom hub  so the sensor change took longer than planned and cost more  driveshaft was a pain to slide out all finished and....................hey ho abs light and handbrake warning light still on after roadtest  scan showing nsr is faulty now ffs!

now do this under the rear seat u will see 2 plugs they are were the abs sensor joins undo both plugs and plug the n/s into o/s and o/s into n/s plug ur car into vag com if the abs is still reading the n/s sensor ur ecu is dead this is a 100% working method to diagnose the abs pump if it says o/s now ur sensor needs changing

[northeast_gti-t]

now do this under the rear seat u will see 2 plugs they are were the abs sensor joins undo both plugs and plug the n/s into o/s and o/s into n/s plug ur car into vag com if the abs is still reading the n/s sensor ur ecu is dead this is a 100% working method to diagnose the abs pump if it says o/s now ur sensor needs changing

Cheers checked this earlier and vag-com still reads near side sensor  been searching for and abs pump/ecu and located a couple with the same part number as my unit,for reasonable £££ hopefully i get one and then get fitted and hopefully no more abs faults 

[xionsolaris]

U can fit it yourself its not that hard but i only reccomend a snap on brake pipe spanner as there old brake pipes now

[northeast_gti-t]

Looks like still a dodgy ecu. I think every one you will buy will have some kind of fault. Usually it's common to have rear sensor fault

U can fit it yourself its not that hard but i only reccomend a snap on brake pipe spanner as there old brake pipes now

Cheers tshirt had a read of one of the previous abs faults you replied to and decided today after another check confirms the ecu could well be the problem i have ordered another unit same part number,i had a unit that came with the car  wrong part number tho so undid the ecu on that earlier now i'm thinking could i just remove the ecu from under the pump unit and put on the ecu from new unit or would it be best just fitting the whole new unit?

looking to fit it myself will have to get a snap on brake pipe spanner for the job 

[xionsolaris]

I would only reccomend changing the whole unit to guarantee to fix your problem

[Screech16v]

You can remove just the ecu so brake pipes can stay connected so no need to bleed,just bend them out the way a little

[xionsolaris]

You can remove just the ecu so brake pipes can stay connected so no need to bleed,just bend them out the way a little

not worth it if a pipe snaps youve got to replace a brake line

[tshirt2k]

You can remove just the ecu so brake pipes can stay connected so no need to bleed,just bend them out the way a little

not worth it if a pipe snaps youve got to replace a brake line

It is worth it. You won't break the lines and its nort worth changing the whole pump unless the bolts holding the ecu are rusted and can't be undone. So your recommendation is going to cause the OP more work than is necessary.

Also who's to say, the whole new (second hand) unit won't be broken?

As I said earlier, most units you buy secondhand will probably have a fault on them anyway

[Callum_K]

tshirt2k is it you who is handy with a soldering iron and can fix the ECUs? Mine is definitely faulty...get an intermittant OSR sensor fault, same code even when swapping over sensor wires under the seats.

[tshirt2k]

Fairly handy.  Pm me if you like.