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ABS not working, no ABS light on dash?

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jdpartsman

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Hello. New to forum here, which is good meaning my wife's 08 Grand Prix has been good to us with 71K on the tach. I drove it this morning and almost slid past a red light sideways as we had freezing rain last night, (we cooled down from 41 to 5 overnight!)

Anyway, I drove around and tried the brakes many times, always sliding all four wheels. No warnings or messages from the car. Fuses are good. I did notice that when engine starts the ABS light on the dash does not turn on briefly like the manual says it should.

Any ideas before I have it looked at by a tech? Thanks!
 


ABS is your enemy on ice and snow anyway. It causes you to slide further.

If there is no indication of ABS being disabled on the DIC I am guessing it is functioning as it should.
 
Is it possible a car as new as 2008 does not have ABS? Seems odd that it would not be standard. I guess I need to know if it has it or not I guess, any way to prove this?
 
all you have to do is look at the back of the hub, if theres a wire leading to the hub across the lower control arm, it has abs, no wire, no abs.

under the hood would be lacking the abs pump off to the side of the master cylinder too.
 


my abs light tripped in the last snow storm, so the abs was off for the last few miles home. i must say it stopped way better with no abs.
 
stealthee said:
Not dumb at all. I wish my car did not have ABS. ABS is something that makes people feel safer, but really only "works" on dry pavement.
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The primay goal of ABS is not to stop a car faster but to make it so a driver can still steer while in a paniced braking situation. It also keeps people from locking the brakes up on ice and snow and going into a slide. The only situation it takes longer to stop in is on snow as locked up tires will "plow" snow and pile it in front of the tire slowing the car down faster.

I personally also am not a fan of ABS it's just something else to go wrong on a car but it's good for people who don't know how to drive and pump the brakes instead of locking them up and going into a slide
 
indygrandprix said:
The primay goal of ABS is not to stop a car faster but to make it so a driver can still steer while in a paniced braking situation. It also keeps people from locking the brakes up on ice and snow and going into a slide. The only situation it takes longer to stop in is on snow as locked up tires will "plow" snow and pile it in front of the tire slowing the car down faster.

I personally also am not a fan of ABS it's just something else to go wrong on a car but it's good for people who don't know how to drive and pump the brakes instead of locking them up and going into a slide
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the problem with abs is people still cant drive, most nail the brakes the pedal hit s the floor, the person locks up with fear and they hit what ever they were trying to avoid still.

oh, when my abs locks up in snow, theres no steering a f ing thing, it slides where ever it wants to.
 


ABS is terrible on anything but dry pavement. Loose gravel, dirt, ice, snow, wet leaves, standing water, and the list goes on. ABS makes stopping distance longer on any of those situations.
 
No wires to wheels, no ABS motor on master cylinder....thus no ABS. I will inform my wife on how to drive without ABS. She has been doing it for two years now without knowing it. Thank you all for the help.
 
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