thanks,

yeah I'm quite sure it's a scammer thing, but what can I do about it...I found the car at the auction. It does drive and go pretty well aside from the maybe 1 out of 15 times stuttering idle. And I'm happy for what I've paid for it.

When I said the ABS bulb is on it's on the whole time when the engine is started - ABS is faulty. But I'd imagine that is because my speed "feed" from the differential is bad. no speed feed from the rear = no ABS, right?

makes no sense how come the CEL does not light up even after replacing the bulbs though.... faulty connection on the cluster maybe? Everything else comes on properly.

I guess I'll go grab a new VSS and swap it out and see what happens with my speed and maybe my ABS fault light.

What stumps me here is that my car "seems to" know how fast it is going because it is shifting gears normally. But if it knows how fast it is going (Assuming faulty gauge instead of faulty VSS) then the ABS is a whole different can of worm.....