Brakes
ABS wheel speed sensor
Checked on 1 January 2026.Sinspeed, ABS sensor replacement cost UK (as of 1 January 2026)
What does abs wheel speed sensor cost in the UK?
£70 to £350 fitted at an independent garage, VAT included, on a mainstream car. The midpoint of that range is about £210, and where you land inside it is decided by access, parts and wheel size rather than by the garage's postcode.
The sensor sits at the hub and reads a toothed or magnetic ring. It unbolts, the new one goes in and the fault codes are cleared with a diagnostic tool. The sensor itself is £20 to £90, so most of the bill is the hour to hour and a half of labour plus the diagnostic time. WhoCanFixMyCar report an average quote of £71.38 for the sensor job, while Sinspeed publish £130 to £350 fitted once diagnostics are included, from £130 on a Fiesta to £350 on a Range Rover. That spread is the honest picture and this range covers it. The thing worth knowing before you spend: the same fault code can be thrown by a corroded connector, a dirty sensor ring, or a fault inside the ABS module itself, so pay for the diagnosis before you pay for the part.
How this job compares
| Job | Area | Fitted price |
|---|---|---|
| Front wiper blades | Visibility | £19 to £45 |
| ABS wheel speed sensor | Brakes | £70 to £350 |
| Exhaust section or full system | Noise, emissions and leaks | £100 to £1,200 |
Other brakes work
| Job | Fitted price | Labour |
|---|---|---|
| Front brake pads and discs | £130 to £375 | 1.5h |
| Brake discs without new pads | £125 to £375 | 1.5h |
| Corroded brake pipe | £75 to £215 | 1.5h |
| Handbrake adjustment or cable | £75 to £150 | 1.5h |
Common questions
- How much does abs wheel speed sensor cost?
- £70 to £350 fitted at an independent garage, including VAT, for a mainstream car.
- How urgent is it?
- Book it in, and expect the warning light to be the problem rather than the braking itself. A warning device showing a system malfunction is a major defect. The car still stops, but without ABS it can lock a wheel in the wet, so treat it as a job for this week rather than next month.
- What moves the price within that range?
- Access, parts and wheel size, mostly. A job that needs the bumper or an arch liner off costs an hour more than the same job on a car where it does not, and a genuine part can be several times an aftermarket one.
- Is this price for one side or both?
- Treat the range as the job as the source published it. Where a part is replaced in pairs the detail below says so, and the second side adds less than double because the labour overlaps.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read off the publisher's own page on the date shown.