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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tahoe but lots of visits to the SF Bay!
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Location: Tahoe but lots of visits to the SF Bay!
Posts: 238
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Flashing VSC Off, solid Trac and solid ABS light [RESOLVED - not zero point calib.!]
2008 4Runner, V8 Limited with >135,000 miles.
Took some time off and stopped driving the 4Runner except for a few times for the past 6-8 weeks. There and back about 10 minute runs twice a week with very limited highway.
One that started happening was the "VSC Off" light would flash, with solid Traction and solid ABS lights coming on at the exact same time -- 2-3 minutes into the drive.
i would pull over, turn the car off and on and get a repeat performance.
Just today, I pulled the battery cable for 2 hours. Was about to get on the highway and the lights came on. Pulled over, turned it off an on (5 seconds) and got on the highway.
Now, my normal habit was a long weekly drive of a few hundred miles, only when I stopped that and parked the car for a long time did I have an issue.
Well, after a nice long drive (back to my normal routine) of 200+ miles, nothing. Everything is back to normal.
I'm having a hard time reconciling it with any type of loose wiring (and I pulled and checked every fuse in the engine and driver kick panel). With a 200+ mile drive, I would have expected it to occur if it were. The battery is the original, and some folks have indicated that the battery could be on the way to crap out (the blue circle is fine, as is the red dot). But that's on the list. I checked the gas cap and it does seem very loose (click and it's basically no effort to untwist) and that's also on the list.
So... ideas? Or do I get back to my habit of 500+ miles a week?
Last edited by Merle; 07-12-2012 at 03:02 PM.
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