Bad connection onto sensor?
No, im home now so ill explain what we did!
Arrived there and put the car onto STAR, there were 17 codes for the ABC system!
Cleared all the codes, then started the car again, and it was doing its usual only raising the passenger side, and the rear drivers side about an inch. This was leaving no errors on STAR. He tried doing some activator test (not a rodeo) but from what I could see, it was like a shake down where the struts were forced to perform, again the passenger side was fine, the rear drivers did a little bit but the front did nothing at all.
We then took the car for a drive, got it up to 30mph, it leveled out as usual, and the blue ABC warning came up.
Arrived back, left it running and put it onto star, this then revealed four ABC codes, one relating to each corners level sensors.
We checked each level sensor voltage and the front drivers was over 4V, the others were all high 2V/Low 3V. From this we gathered that the front sensor was misbehaving.
We turned the car off and on so the ABC light went off and the car was in a state where the passenger side would work. Then we jacked up the front drivers side of the car, turned the wheel to the side and disconnected the top of the level sensor arm so it was free to move. While the car was running, he manually moved the level sensor arm up and down, this actually moved the strut, you could see that it was fully operational, he then moved it right to the end and we got a blue ABC error of being too high or something. We reset this error and then got another blue error of front drivers side level sensor reading.
After this, we moved the sensor arm back to its original position and tried to reset the code on STAR but it would not reset so we reattached the arm and put the car down.
When we put the car down, the front strut was raised two inches and every other strut was where it would be when on its lowest setting, we tried resetting the code on STAR and by turning the car on and off but this had no effect. The car stayed in this state and none of the tests on STAR would activate any of the struts.
We decided that that level sensor was broken and I should order a new one, also the track rod end on that corner needed replacing!
Anyway I drove the car afew miles back to work to finish off some things, when I came back out, I started the car and no ABC error came up, I thought hmmm thats strange, pressed the raise button and the whole car raised!! Lowered it and raised it again around 20 times to make sure I wasnt dreaming and it worked fine!!!!!!!
I still think the level sensor might need replacing, Im going to keep an eye on it over the next few days.
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... 2 struts, 2 pumps, a valve block and a line!
