DIY: How To Tell If Your RD Has ABS
05-20-2011, 06:10 PM
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DIY: How To Tell If Your RD Has ABS
This is just a dead-simple check. If you want to know if your RD platform Hyundai (and many, many others with the same type but specifically 96-00 Elantras and 97-01 Tiburons) has ABS, you gotta get down. There is NO requirement to check fuses or any other confusion in most cases.
The ABS sensors in front read off a cogged wheel on the front CV axle shaft. The axle for ABS and NON-ABS cars is a different part, because non-ABS axles don't have this toothy ring. I had a shop replace my axles at different times (a few months apart, the stock axles will fail near the same time says Murphy). The second time, they asked if I had ABS and they heard the perzact opposite of what I said over the phone, and ordered the wrong part. My car does NOT have ABS.
THIS is the appropriate part: NON-ABS AXLE
THIS would be the wrong part they ordered: ABS AXLE
(hint: the ring is between the knuckle and the taper on the shaft. Look straight up between the "A" and the "B" in "ABS"
The ABS sensors in front read off a cogged wheel on the front CV axle shaft. The axle for ABS and NON-ABS cars is a different part, because non-ABS axles don't have this toothy ring. I had a shop replace my axles at different times (a few months apart, the stock axles will fail near the same time says Murphy). The second time, they asked if I had ABS and they heard the perzact opposite of what I said over the phone, and ordered the wrong part. My car does NOT have ABS.
THIS is the appropriate part: NON-ABS AXLE
THIS would be the wrong part they ordered: ABS AXLE
(hint: the ring is between the knuckle and the taper on the shaft. Look straight up between the "A" and the "B" in "ABS"
05-20-2011, 06:16 PM
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isn't easier to just pop the hood and look for the abs "thingy"(forgot the name of it) on the right hand next to the windshield washer fluid.
05-20-2011, 06:19 PM
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LOL, Yet, some people will just see a mess of brake line, and some thing with brake lines, not alot of people can comprhend the diffrence!
05-20-2011, 06:39 PM
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***** XD Elantra Information (at least the 03) require the ABS axle on a NON ABS Elantra for the passenger side ONLY. If you do not get the part you WILL get a CEL and will be unable to rev past 5k rpms.
09-23-2011, 08:28 PM
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They know:
1) how to hold down a job and
2) more about whether this will be ok than you do.
If you read between the lines on the first post in this thread you will find the answer to your question. Or if you trust the guys at the parts store.
1) how to hold down a job and
2) more about whether this will be ok than you do.
If you read between the lines on the first post in this thread you will find the answer to your question. Or if you trust the guys at the parts store.
12-31-2011, 12:40 AM
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You will have the wrong part on the car. That is what will happen. Rotating mass is different by a pound, causing wheel acceleration forces to divide by zero and the universe implodes.
If you replace a slotted screw with a torx screw, what happens?
If you replace a slotted screw with a torx screw, what happens?
01-04-2012, 09:33 PM
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The screw is different, and the thing the screw was used for still stays in place! 
Unless you're going to be competing at Pebble Beach and somebody cares what your halfshafts look like, this is not the place you need to be spending your energy worrying.
Unless you're going to be competing at Pebble Beach and somebody cares what your halfshafts look like, this is not the place you need to be spending your energy worrying.