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I started my car the other morning and the ABS & Brake lights were on all the way to work. I started it to leave work, and the lights stayed off all the way home. So what happened while the car was at rest (or during starting)? A code stuck in the memory? If that were the case, why does it...

They are snow tires, practically new. Tire wear would have to be extremely uneven in order to have a significant speed differential. Imagine how much the wheel diameter changes due to different tire pressures or cornering. I doesn't make sense to me that the system would be all that sensitive...

Glad to hear you are interested. You mentioned your ebrake light comes on...but does your ABS light come on also? If not, sounds like a different issue. duff

Nope. Not it. All the pads are new. Still get light. Fluid is not low. Flushed, filled, bled the brakes.

2003 Protege5. Discs all the way around. Yes, it sounds like a common problem that does not have a common solution. Looking for some tech here.

Okay. Here's what I did. 1) Cleaned off all the ABS sensors (crud, brake dust etc). 2) Put the (new) Hawk HP+ pads on the front. (HP rears are still pretty new) The stock front pads really did need replacing this time. Found out that the tab on the outer HP+ pad pushes on the lower spring...

Looks to me like quite a few of us Protege owners are having this ABS failure problem. Sorry if this is long......here's my story. I hope it ends up helping somehow. The first time my ABS failed was last winter, somewhere around 27K miles. The brake pads still had plenty of meat on them...