Technical ABS, ESC lights on dash

[Shuggie57]

Hi driving NC500 and When starting up this morning the ABS and ESC warning lights came on ,still drives as normal so will be heading home it's an Elddis campervan with Ducatto cab 2023 model , probably need to call fiat assisttoget it booked into a garage anyone had same issues .

 

[Ocwobio]

On later ones (don't know if it can affect as late as yours) battery voltage must be well up to starting it. If it's a little bit low, it may seem to start OK, but if you turn the key to 'start' position before all warning lights that should go out have done so, voltage drop can give the ECU a bad head. If it doesn't self cure soon, you'll need a diagnostic, but meanwhile try a few starts with the preferred method. Also, has there been heavy rain, maybe water in a connector somewhere?

 

[RS3100]

It could be a number of things. It needs a diagnostic check to find out the nature of any fault codes that may have been stored, which should help pinpoint what may be wrong. Not necessarily something that I'd abandon a trip over. You should still have full normal braking ability, it's just the ABS and ESC that may not work if required. Plenty of vehicles still on the road that had neither of those options fitted from new. It could be something very minor, and if the warning lights are no longer illuminated it may just have been a temporary glitch. I had the same message come up once several years ago whilst driving up the M74. I hadn't even touched the brakes when it came up, but the warning went out a couple of minutes later and has never reappeared. No faults stored a couple of months later when I got home, and other than cleaning pads and calipers, no work done to the brakes since and passed the MOT every year.

 

[Shuggie57]

It could be a number of things. It needs a diagnostic check to find out the nature of any fault codes that may have been stored, which should help pinpoint what may be wrong. Not necessarily something that I'd abandon a trip over. You should still have full normal braking ability, it's just the ABS and ESC that may not work if required. Plenty of vehicles still on the road that had neither of those options fitted from new. It could be something very minor, and if the warning lights are no longer illuminated it may just have been a temporary glitch. I had the same message come up once several years ago whilst driving up the M74. I hadn't even touched the brakes when it came up, but the warning went out a couple of minutes later and has never reappeared. No faults stored a couple of months later when I got home, and other than cleaning pads and calipers, no work done to the brakes since and passed the MOT every year.

Appreciate your reply, and yes, van is driving as normal will get my mate to plug in his diagnostic unit when I get back