2004 E320 ESP and ABS malfunctions
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2004 E320 ESP and ABS malfunctions
New to this forum. I was driving my E320 this morning, took a curve, a little sharp, ESP pops on, says malfunction, then the transmission kicks itself into neutral, car still running but as I give it gas, no response to the rpm's. I had to manually shift into neutral, kill it, waited a minute then recranked it. It cranked on no problem, but then started hesitating. When i stopped at a stop sign, big truck in front of me, my car decided it wanted to be a di*k and surge, almost putting me under the truck! Not sure whats going on with her. May not have anything to do with it but last night an opossum decided it wanted to run into the side of my car. Needless to say, it slammed up under my car pretty hard under the driver front. Any help or advice would be awesome!
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Originally Posted by pinebaron
Check front driver side wheel speed sensor; skirmish with the animal may have damaged the sensor cable.
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and you taking that turn sharply could of just caused the yaw rate sensor to go bazurk.... It's doing its job if that is the case. But the hesitation is strange.... Could be WSS related and or a esp/abs component could be failing. Are the lights still on?
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Originally Posted by cmriv
and you taking that turn sharply could of just caused the yaw rate sensor to go bazurk.... It's doing its job if that is the case. But the hesitation is strange.... Could be WSS related and or a esp/abs component could be failing. Are the lights still on?
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Not sure i've ever seen a bad wss cause limp mode but i guess it's possible.... Your symptoms sound like a transmission issue. Something mechanical, like the front pump is bad or something. If it was something electrical you would still have first and 2nd gear.... it falling flat on its face and not doing anything at all is bizzare, if you have a esp malfunction.
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Originally Posted by cmriv
Not sure i've ever seen a bad wss cause limp mode but i guess it's possible.... Your symptoms sound like a transmission issue. Something mechanical, like the front pump is bad or something. If it was something electrical you would still have first and 2nd gear.... it falling flat on its face and not doing anything at all is bizzare, if you have a esp malfunction.
I read somewhere there is a tranny speed sensor..? What's yall's take on it?
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ESP has a program that if it can't stabilize the car in preset time -it will kill engine throttle.
Maybe this is what is kicking, maybe not but you have to have codes.
Maybe this is what is kicking, maybe not but you have to have codes.
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So tonight i replaced my brake light switch and reset the transmission Tadaaa....all messages gone, no shutting off, and the tranny was shifting nice and smooth. Still a little stumped on how a brake light switch has anything to do with my tranny, but I won't complain. Lol
