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I have recently sent my ABS ECU Module off for a warranty refurb as it failed a year after being fixed (try light fault).

Anyway my car is sat outside and i have been afraid to run it with the module removed exposing the pots where the electronic board usually plugs in.  I have some work that requires doing on my car and my local indy is going to sort for me, usual stuff, bushes and a gator thats torn.  I asked him about driving it with the module removed and he err'd on the side of caution as he said he had no idea of impact.  but i am sure i read something somewhere that it can be driven just the abs, traction control etc won't work.  I'm not wanting to do a long journey but a couple of miles to the garage.

has anyone got experience or understand the system enough to know if it can be used with that removed, unfortunately a 9 month old and a mother back at work prevents me doing any work on my car otherwise i would attempt it myself.

Personally I wouldn't drive it for obvious reasons,can't the Indy that's fixing the car put it on a trailer or similar?

During the process of mine having it's work I was told that disconnecting the ABS/DSC module results in the system being wide open i.e. braking is fine.  This makes sense as a braking system which fails due to an electrical fault in the braking system is unlikely to be fit for purpose.  Don't take this as me saying drive it though.

will probably lean towards the cautious side, where its parked would need moving under its own power so would still be driving it to a trailerable location.  Dan, makes sense that it would fail "safe" in a sense, but i have physically removed the abs module form the abs pump exposing parts of it rather than it just been unplugged or failed.  i have no idea what the internals of the eco module do, there either pressure transducers or solenoids to activate the braking system or both, it seems enclosed and a capped system but will stick with leaving it where it is.