Brake and ABS light on

[milesz]

I have a 2001 X5 4.4 and the other night the ABS and brake lights came on. Also, the brake lights are not working, cruise control, none of the functions on the streeling wheel and getting bad gas mileage. I have searched the site but still unclear. If any of you have had this problem; what is the cure?

Thanks in advance,

[koister2001]

Is your speedometer working? I would suspect either the wheel speed sensor or ABS module.

[milesz]

Yes the speedo is still working, any ideas?

[amacman]

speedo reads one speed sensor so could be any other sensor or abs module or steering angle sensor , the list of sensors goes on , so you really need a diagnostics test to show fault code relating to specific malfunction.

[milesz]

Thanks

[amacman]

please come back and tell us how you go with this as many people have similar issues with different causes .

[milesz]

Based on some advice, from this site, I checked the fuses in the glove box and surely enough, the brake fuse was blown. Now I have brake lights and all control on the steerling wheel works. I still need to address the ABS and brake light on. Also, I got a scanner and scanned the truck but it showed no codes.

[koister2001]

Try to reset the faults? You may disconnect the battery and wait for some time and connect it back . It may do the magic..

[milesz]

Ok, I took the X5 to Advance European Automotive in Bakersfield and after 193.00 later the car is still doing the samething (ABS and Brake light on, blowing the brake light fuse and lost all steering wheel control). They wanted another 400.00 to fit it. Are they insane?

So what I did, and I suggest you do, is keep your 600.00 in you pocket. My problem was with the steering wheel harness not connecting properly. It took me about 20 min to fit it. I took off the steering wheel airbag and unpluged and re-pluged the harness and replaced the fuse. By doing it this way, the only out of pocket expense is the cost of a 5 amp fuse.

So far all is well.