ABS, braking power low, etc.

I’m just wondering, “why 3 DIFFERENT shops?”. Is it a trust issue or convenience?

 

What people keep insisting on calling a paper-clip "reset" is merely a trouble-code clear. It is a way of taking a car that has told you there's a brake problem, and making it temporarily forget that it told you there's a brake problem. That'll last as long as it takes for the car to again figure out it has a brake problem, and in the meantime, you're driving around in a car that has amnesia, and a brake problem.

To your question of whether that method works in Gen 4, I don't know. You could accomplish the same thing (as if there were any good reason to) by connecting a scan tool and doing a code clear that way.

Earlier generations also had certain other operations, like calibration relearns, that could be done with certain different "paper clip" tricks. I'm not sure whether Gen 4 has those, either, but those are things you do if the trouble codes that you have tell you to do them. (For example, in Gen 3, there can be a trouble code for the linear solenoid offset needing to be learned, so if you have that code, then you go do that procedure.)

The most urgent thing for you here is to know what trouble codes you have—not to clear them. Do you have a way of getting those codes?

 

hello all
got this message 2nd time in the past week. wondering if my 12v battery is the culprit for that.i had this battery for over 6 yrs now. my milage is about 250k, car never had any issues at all. im the owner in past 6 yrs. it first happened as i startd driving, had no choice continued driving at 5 mph for 5 minutes till it disapeared. yesterday night happened again at traffic light stop, a minute away from home. disapeared again in the morning.
no dtc codes recorded.
brake fluid level between low and high. no leaks found