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Minor yes, annoyances INDEED.

My current situation is puzzling. I own a 1995 Mystique V6 5 Speed with almost 50000 kms. The car SAT in a heated garage for 9 years with almost no movement (out garage, washed, put back in the garage) when i got if from my dad it had 11,000 kms now being 8 months into my ownership i have dashboard lights galore. The ABS and Traction control lights come on and stay on only when i accelerate quickly then they stay on during the entire voyage to wherever im going. If i idle clutch without pushing the gas till i am rolling i don't get any lights. Now i do have some things that can contribute to the problem but i don't know. 1. the right side ebrake sticks every time i pull it but i unstick it every time its stuck. 2 it SNOWED here in NWO so i franticly put on my extra tires on the front which are 195/65/15 but left my 205/50/15's on the the back till i can afford to purchase the other two 195's. 3 i recently did an ebrake u-turn in the snow, i didn't hit anything but after that it went all screwy.

My sig should tell you everything else you need to know about my car. Hope you can help me out.

sorry i forgot to add 1 thing. another post about brakes reminded me of it when it first snowed i still had my dunlops on and they were bald as hell so when i was driving it was almost like a burnout cause i had no traction.

A car that sits still needs are the fluids changed on a regular basis. The fluids can turn corosive and eat sensors and rubber parts. I'm surprised the car moved. Heated garage and washing it does little to nothing for the mechanical components.

You should have everything flush and all your seals/gaskets checked.

-Andy

wheel speed sensors are spinning at different rates because of the two different size tires causing both the traction control and abs lights to flash. you can calculate the revs per mile for wheel and tire choices here tire size calculator do the calcs and you will notice that your front tires are making 67!!! more revs per mile!! the tcs +abs sensors rely on wheel speed to work. they require similar speeds from each corner to remain off. obviously, your front tires are spinning way faster than your rears so the computer suspects a loss of traction. hence your abs and tcs lights

I got another one that doesnt have n e thing to do with brakes. It has to do with parents. Man i hate being 17 and parents being down my back about sex and stuff. Just because i have a girlfriend doesnt mean im doing n e thing. It really pisses me off. GRR

you could try the common interests forum for that one. i'd say sex was a fairly common interest for all of us

HYJACK CITY

these posts should be under GIMMI A BRAKE not BRAKE

funny though

i guess it's my fault.

oh ya and no lights on in the last week.

of course the snow went as fast as it came.

now it's nice out again.

Eddid