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Rough road turned ABS light on. Why? 850 1996

posted by  jthorner on  Tue Mar 2 16:37 CST 2004
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These vehicles develop intermittent electrical faults inside the ABS controller (which is attached to the ABS pump near the master cylinder). When mine, also a '96 850 started happening often I finally replaced the controller at a cost of around $500. Ouch.

This seems to be one of the parts on our vintage of 850 which will almost certainly fail on almost every vehicle at some point. Seems like a design weakness to me, but Volvo shows no signs of doing anything to help the effected customers. I think they like collected big $$$ for the part.

You can read more about this problem at:

http://www.volvospeed.com/Repair/abstrax.htm


John





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