Telling us which car might help.

 

Apologies it's a 2008 1.8 type S

 

where is this located? driver or passenger side?

 

Drivers side vsa abs
module.

 

Crikey thats gunna be a job to repair!!!

 

Aye sure is I have ordered a new pump and modular of eBay and it has a connector on it. so then it's join all the wires together do some voltage tests etc.
It's how it got like that in the first place gets me

 

Most likely water ingress then shorted out a couple of wires.

You might be able to de pin many of the wires, suppose it depends on how bad the damage is inside the plug.

 

I am hoping that I can as it would make it alot easier.

 

I had the same problem on my Hyundai Getz about 2007, at the time a few manufacturers had the same problem - Citroen and Vauxhall , but it wasn't publicised too much , apart from news items of cars catching fire. My abs caught fire at about 3 -o clock in the morning , this was some time after Hyundai had applied a fix , which obviously didn't work !
Eventually they found a poor earth to abs module was causing the overheating and fire, and this fixed the problem.
In my case they had to replace abs module, various looms in engine compartment, and a driveshaft. The fire extinguished itself, and I only knew about it because the alarm went off , and car was actually driveable ! I didn't notice for a couple of days until I saw some melted plastic on my drive under where car was parked.
Anyway , cut a long story short, ABS takes a high current , so earth is very important, you don't want it going again .!

 

Luckily it did not catch fire wile you where driving. I will definitely have to get a wiring diagram and find where all the ground points is on the civic because I will definitely be worried that it would happen again. Surely honda have to know that there abs vsa system is a bit rubbish from sensors to the pump/module it's self as there is so many posts and videos relating to it on the internet.
But thanks in planing the idea that it could be a ground that caused the issue in my case I will definitely be investigating this for sure.

 

That looks pretty terminal to me.