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What would cause the antilock brakes to activate and clunk while driving?
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∙ 18y ago
The abs system will activate when certain perameters are met within either the vehicles pcm or abs module. The noise is the abs motor actuating your brakes. If never experienced it can be pretty unerving but is normal. there could be some "teeth" missing on the wheel sensor, which causes flat spots in the analog signal, these are the same condtions as when the wheel locks up
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Does a 1995 Grand Am have drums or disc brakes on the back?
Drum brakes, and tend to develop leaky wheel cylinders which in turn cause wheels to lock up and in doing so causes antilock system to activate. Real annoying!
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Brakes
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Possibly bad wheel bearing.
How does the check tire pressure light have to with antilock brake system?
The two are entirely separate systems and should not affect each other.However that said, if you make a regular habit of driving on under inflated tires (which would activate the tire pressure light) the fact that the tires will spin at a different rate than normal might confuse the ABS and cause it to not function at its best ability when you most need it.
When you start your car you have no brakes what could it be?
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