Comes on every couple of weeks. Goes away when you restart the engine. It is real ... rear brakes will lock. Anyone else seen this problem?

 

Never seen that before but sounds worth a trip to the dealer.

 

some cars perform an ABS check to see if the brakes are working properly and the light comes on when it does perform the check...?

 

no this thing comes on while driving .. may be something got cooked on the track? Dealer will probably not cover it.

 

Yes, this happened to me. The brakes would lock while the car was moving. The lights would come on and the pedal would be full hard down and would take awhile to release.

 

it happens when one of the wheel off the ground or break loose during braking. the ABS system will sense it as a faulty action. does that ring the bell?

it'll reset itself when u restart the car. nothing to worry about. it happens on GT cars alot since it break loose easier.

 

That isn't the problem we had.

 

sorry chad. thought was the light only til i read it again.

 

OMG that sounds even worse! In my case the light comes on ahead of time, then on hard braking the rears lock up, but the pedal feels normal. Shut off the engine and everything is back to nomral. The sequence that leads to it seems somewhat random at this point.

 

could be as silly as a low battery...that will set off the abs....better have dealer check it out....

 

It has a pending code if read with the PST2. Have the code looked at. If the light comes on while driving it is loosing the speed signal or the wave is breaking up to the ECU. The code will not trip until it occurs X many times. X is based on the level of importance to the system. So it may happen 10 times and not throw the code and on the 11th time trip it. Take it to someone that has a PST2 and see what it is doing.

 

Have you had anything done to your brakes at all recently?

 

I had nothing done to the brakes. The car only has 6K miles on it. But I think Chuck nailed it ... could this be the problem

 

that could very well be the culprit...but Stephen nailed it too...if you can check the error code it will tell you if there is low voltage or a more serious problem...

 

Thanks guys for the great advice!! I will switch it back to the stock battery right away. Would appreciate recommendations on a good shop in So Cal. that can run the test Stephen mentioned. I am sure the dealer will not be kind in dealing with this.