is it ok to keep useing a trailer thats showing no abs and 3 red warning lights on the dash? i defected it last wednesday and its still not repaired.its leaving alot of tread on the road when you brake
3 red lights ? I wouldn’t just out of your bat. Orange maybe, but red ? No way.
Red means stop, so no definitely not 
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strongbowpeter:
is it ok to keep useing a trailer thats showing no abs and 3 red warning lights on the dash? i defected it last wednesday and its still not repaired.its leaving alot of tread on the road when you brake
You’re either on the wind up, or taking drugs.
come on, Which is it? 
he 100% gotta be taking the p155 because if he aint i think he better go and pick up a learn to drive handbook
Is it ok to drive in just my underpants …
SYE-1:
Is it ok to drive in just my underpants …
if you drive in just your underpants whilst licking the windows you’d be taken more seriously than strongbowpete.
Depends what the boss says…
“It’s fine, you’re only going down the road”
Is it fine to drive dressed as a rabbit
Get somebody to look at it who knows what they are doing probably just a loose pin in the ISO socket.Will tell you on the trailer module.
I’d drive with an amber not a red though as if you have an accident you would be fubar.
got a chap on the door when parked up one day in glasgow a few years back by vosa boys , checked truck and trailer out but found an abs light was on , upshot was truck got a ticket cant remember what it was called but it was 1 down from a gv9 … truck had to go through a full m.o.t within 7 days . the vosa crew dont take kindly to abs faults at all , report them and let the relevant people know , put it in defect book just to keep yourself right …and if the traffic office want you to run with it then its on their head ,
strongbowpeter:
‘… Is it ok to keep using a trailer that’s showing … 3 red warning lights … I defected it last wednesday and its still not repaired…’
Might the defect need investigating as a combination fault - not just the trailer alone 
I suppose the easiest way round the problem would be to remove a couple of lines, push the shunt button and be on ya way 
strongbowpeter:
.its leaving alot of tread on the road when you brake
Back in the day before we had ABS, they all used to do that, you’d think nothing of having a wheel which locked up every time you braked and the approach to roundabouts used to be covered with a thick coating of rubber.
Are you lot saying you never drive a truck with an amber trailer abs light on or an ebs fault etc? Not being funny in anyway, the reason i ask is because ive never battered an eye lid at it simply because the people i’ve worked for have just told me to get on with it.
Pain in the arse maybe just a wheel sensor stuck
Saaamon:
Are you lot saying you never drive a truck with an amber trailer abs light on or an ebs fault etc? Not being funny in anyway, the reason i ask is because ive never battered an eye lid at it simply because the people i’ve worked for have just told me to get on with it.
Amber yes, red no. Remember the Jedi mind tricks if you’re pulled by VOSA ‘this light wasn’t on when I left the yard’ - or just switch the ignition off before they see it.
Increasingly these days if it’s a dynamic fault it is the case that the exciter rings do need the rust cleaning off, the sensor needs knocking closer to them or even the wheel bearings on the way out. It’s less commom now that the unit is using a yellow ABS lamp to tell you the trailer isn’t EBS for example.
If it’s locking severely up all the time when light or empty might be a load sensing valve issue or some other reason but it’s a symptom of the trailer sending full tank pressure to the chambers.
The OPs scenario doesn’t sound like a normal dynamic fault ie sensor or exciter rings where the light goes once you travel over 10kmh then comes on again later when you go over a certain speed or when you next brake.