Well, now she drives straight and level thanks to her recycled truck tyre Panhard rod bushes, and the valve train is now silent again due to the application of actual motor oil, it's the turn of the brakes. Been fine up until yesterday morning when it took around two minutes for the warning light to go out and the ABS pump to stop. Same today. It's always been 15-20 seconds or so.

Guessing it's time for an accumulator then!

Amazingly, I've found somewhere here that has one.

Are you sitting down?

GBP280!

You are kidding!!!
How much is postage to you from the UK?

An accumulator that has lost it's Nitrogen usually means that the pump only runs for a very short time as there's no capacity left for it to fill. Running for ages would suggest the pump isn't pumping as well as it should but I hate to imagine how much a pump would cost you over there.....

Morat wrote:

You are kidding!!!
How much is postage to you from the UK?

Getting one from the UK is easy, except for one problem.

HSBC Malaysia allowed a GBP10,000 fraudulent transfer to go through on my credit card (they knew this as they rang me at the time to ask if it was me - it wasn't) and then demanded I repaid it. After seven months, we got that sorted and I then took great pleasure in telling them where to stick their accounts. Whilst this was a source of enormous satisfaction, I've got two weeks whilst I wait for my local card to be ready. Hence looking local.

Gilbertd wrote:

An accumulator that has lost it's Nitrogen usually means that the pump only runs for a very short time as there's no capacity left for it to fill. Running for ages would suggest the pump isn't pumping as well as it should but I hate to imagine how much a pump would cost you over there.....

This really isn't the sort of post I'm looking for! :-)

If it was the pump, and it's no noisier than before, Wouldn't I have seen a gradual deterioration, similar to an EAS pump, rather than two days?

You know the right answer here!