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Douglas Richard Joos Posted on Jul 06, 2015
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Why do my Brake, ABS and Traction lights come on, the readout says traction ESC ?

My car has 82,000 miles and had a front brake job done in April 2015.

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Take it back to the ppl that did the brake job

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