Weird traction control issues

[mudd]

I had a wheel hub go. I replaced with a brand new duralast hub from Auto zone . Unfortunately I had to do it all over again because the new hub had a bad sensor and was still throwing the T.C. and Stable tac lights on the dash. Soooo, I took it to A.Z. and had them hook the scan tool to it. Unfortunately auto zones best scan tool wouldn't read any of those codes. I then went to a local shop, they had a scan tool that read and confirmed the new hub was bad. Soooo I ordered two new Timkin hubs from Rock auto for$50 less each. Now Im Golden.

 

[Justinj360]

I had a wheel hub go. I replaced with a brand new duralast hub from Auto zone . Unfortunately I had to do it all over again because the new hub had a bad sensor and was still throwing the T.C. and Stable tac lights on the dash. Soooo, I took it to A.Z. and had them hook the scan tool to it. Unfortunately auto zones best scan tool wouldn't read any of those codes. I then went to a local shop, they had a scan tool that read and confirmed the new hub was bad. Soooo I ordered two new Timkin hubs from Rock auto for$50 less each. Now Im Golden.

So if the sensor is bad will the lights always be on? Or would it depend on how bad your sensor actually sucks?

 

[SLCHOE]

The way to troubleshoot this is with a scan tool that displays each wheel's RPM live data.

Traction Control/ABS/Stability Control (Stabilitrak) are all the same module/system working differently.

While driving down the road you want to monitor each wheel's RPM. When the issue presents itself, look at the 4 wheel signals. Going in a straight line, they should all be the same RPM. I'm guessing one goes out of whack when it happens. That WSS would be your problem.

 

[electro]

It's a fairly expansive meter. I think it reads a rather high frequency.

 

[SLCHOE]

it's a fairly expansive meter. I think it reads a rather high frequency.

wat?

 

[mudd]

So if the sensor is bad will the lights always be on? Or would it depend on how bad your sensor actually sucks?

I could hear the hub going before it threw those lights. I live in wisconsin and was on my way home from visiting family in eastern ohio. The hub started howling then i heard a crunching sound. Withing a few seconds of that the lights came on. Believe it or not i drove it home, close to 200 miles. It was sunday afternoon and we were still south of Gary Indiana.
At the end i was slowed to 40 mph but we made it!