Rear ABS sensor fault after replacing wheel hub assembly

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  1. tonymats

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    I just replaced the rear right wheel hub on my 2013 Prius. After turning the car on, I immediately see this fault code:

    ABS
    Part # suffix: 47214
    Calibration ID: F152647214
    Fault codes:
    C1466 Rear Speed Sensor RH Circuit

    I do not see any damage in the wiring that plugs into the sensor. Plugging out and back in didn't help either.

    Since the sensor itself is embedded in the wheel hub, would the most likely explanation that the wheel hub is defective?

    It's a Mevotech part ordered from RockAuto. The only thing that throws me off is that the fault code refers to the Circuit, not to the sensor itself.
     
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    Yes I would think it's a bad hub sensor embedded in the hub which would be part of the circuit if completed and functioning. Try a trq from Amazon I had good luck so far not had to redo one yet I'm on cars heading to 5 and 600K . In for the long game
     
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    PSA: the car's brake/skid ECU has a sensor check test mode that the repair manual always advises to use after any work like replacing a hub. After completing the test mode procedure, all of the sensors have been confirmed working, to a more stringent standard than normal operation. This is worth doing even when using shiny new Toyota parts, just to make sure there won't be later surprises and customer returns.
     
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    Do you have tech stream ? Then you can bring up the menu chap is talking about and see if that will tell ya much . With what's going on in manufacturing right now I'm banking on just a part that got thru that shouldn't have
     
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    Don't even need Techstream to get into the sensor check test mode; a jumper'll do it, as described at the link I gave.
     
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    @ChapmanF what does TS stand for, quote from your link:

     
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    The mnemonics that manufacturers assign to pins aren't always easy to guess meanings for. There are various "without using the Techstream" procedures detailed in the repair manual that involve playing with a jumper between the Tc and CG pins, or between the Ts and CG pins, of the diagnostic connector. CG is easily guessable as chassis ground, which is pin 4.

    Your guess is as good as mine what Tc or Ts stand for. Tc at least has been pin 13 all along, while Ts went from being one pin in the gen 1 Prius to a different pin in later gens.
     
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    Yeah back in the '80s it was like te and E1 under the little square box under the hood there's always been funny letter designations for test ports . Then obd came into play .
     
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    I ordered another hub assembly from TRQ as @Tombukt2 suggested, but the fault code is still there. I'll try to figure out how to do the sensor check, trying to find the repair manual. Haynes has one for 2001-2012 years, is it likely to work for my 2013? I guess it should as both 2012 and 2013 are Gen 3.

    If the embedded hub sensor is not the issue, I guess I could have damaged the plug when disconnecting it. Doesn't seem obvious how to replace it (if they even sell it), the wiring just disappears into the frame.
     
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    Huge mistake!
    trq is crap! You might have gotten 4000 miles out of them. I went through that.
    Decades ago they were good, but not any longer.

    OEM, Timken, Moog(made in America hubs).
    How much time and pain have you wasted with cheap hubs? And still have problems.

    In theory, duralast hubs from autozone are made by Moog.

    Why did you replace the hubs? Were they noisy, or abs issue?
    The plastic holding the connector to the hub is tricky.

     
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    I replaced the hub because it was humming, there were no ABS errors before. I replaced the other 3 with Mevotech parts a year ago without any issues. I don't mind paying a bit more for a US made part, but having gone through two hubs, I am getting pessimistic if that would help.

    I'm thinking I'll swap the other rear hub from left to right, then I'll know for sure if the error code changes from RH to LH.
     
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    Okay, and you used trq? Swoping them might move the error code.
    Make sure you clear the code before swoping them. If the error code moved,
    then you know for sure it's the hub.

    You "might" get lucky and it won't throw a code. There could be a metal fragment caught
    in the sensor. Which "might" get knocked free since it's going the opposite direction.
    If that is the issue, it will probably come back eventually.
     
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    I've got a 100k now on some trq hub and 70K.o some real cheap junk on purpose just to see if I could beat em out any kind of fast or so far and I can be hard on them in inclement weather sliding from ice to dry pavement car rights itself very abruptly brought to damage suspension parts and hubs. Still nothing ... Set of gen3 hubs loaded tra laying on carport floor been sitting 3 years probably never get installed . Move em over to Gen 2 hubs I guess .
     
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    If there's a change and you have 2001 to 12 and yer 13 welp maybe . I don't have the manuals to look up to see if any of that changed some other folks have all that literature for the Gen 3 I do not buttheyre are changes rt around 13.