Hey guys...I had an incident the other day that I thought may be just an electrical gremlin but apparently not as the issue has surfaced again. I apologize in advance for the long read and I'll try and make this as short as possible. 3 days ago I was pulling away from my folks place on the way to the landfill when the Jeep starting acting wonky. The traction control started randomly kicking in and the Jeep was kind of surging. The issue seemed to go away if I hit the "ESP OFF" button. As soon as I clicked it back on...the issue resurfaced. I pulled over and shut it off...waited a few seconds...and then restarted it. Same thing. Well as I drove a bit it chimed and the ABS, ESP/BAS, and the TCS (car with the squiggly lines) lights all came on and stayed on. The Jeep drove fine with no issues 15 miles to and from the landfill. I stopped to Advance Auto to see if, by chance, there were any codes. I was hoping it would tell me a wheel sensor had gone bad. It pulled no codes or spotted any issues. When I started it back up, the lights were gone and the Jeep drove fine with no further issues (which is why I thought it may just be a random electrical gremlin).
Yesterday I drove to my folks place again and when I left my house it started acting up again with the traction control going on and off (you could feel it in the wheels). It acted up for a minute and then went away. I got my folks place and as I was leaving it really acted up. If I hit the brakes you could feel the ABS pulsing and you could hear the ESP/traction control in the wheels as though I was trying to drive on an unstable surface. The sound was a bit louder this time and I took a video. If you turn your speakers up you should be able to hear the ESP/traction control pulsing the wheels. At about the 20 second mark I hit the ESP OFF button and it got slightly better. As I was driving home it chimed again and the 3 lights all came on again. The Jeep drove fine the rest of the way home. When I got home I shut it off and restarted it a couple of times and the 3 lights now stay on.
I have done some searching and it seems to sound like an issue with a wheel sensor or the wiring. My concern is that in the posts I have read, they usually mentioned the lights coming on but not any driveability issues before they came on. Does this sound like a sensor or wiring issue to yall or possibly something else? Thanks in advance for any thoughts or advice.
Jim
). My wife drove it to work today and all was normal with the 3 lights on. When she left work, the lights had gone off and the Jeep drove fine for a while. She then went to the grocery store and it started acting up with the ABS trying to kick on and the traction control going wonky. The lights are still off. My questions is this: Is there any way to disable the ABS and the traction control intentionally....say by pulling a relay or disconnecting a wheel sensor to make the system inactive to make it driveable until I can really figure out whats going on?