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That's what I'm trying to do. However the car yard has never had to deal with a HICAS problem themselves before, and don't know where to send the car. They want me to point to an Auto Electrician or other that knows about these things so it can get fixed. Their customer service seems to be a bit lacking, instead of them going, "Yep, it's got a problem, give it to us for a couple of days and then you can have it back fixed", it's, "Well you find someone to fix it and let us know what they want to do then we can give the go ahead and will pick up the bill afterwards".

As far as I know the HICAS has never actually done anything the whole time I've had the car, because of the computer thinking I've only ever driven in straight lines. As it is this is a warranty thing anyway with the car yard picking up the bill for anything that needs to be done. It's just a case of working out WHAT needs to be done I would like to have the HICAS at least working, so I can know what it's like myself. I've read threads claiming it is unpradictable, which seems fair enough. However I don't plan on drifting or anything like that, I like my tyres and body work where they are. So while I car yard will pick up the cheque I would like to get it working, then at a later date it's fairly cheap for me to install a lock kit if I decide I don't like it. However it will be expensive if later I decide that I really would like to know what this HICAS thing is like...

Yes my car has HICAS, yes it's having problems. This is a long story, so bear with me through this. After buying a '95 Skyline R33 GTSt, while driving I sometimes have the HICAS light come on. This normally happens at higher speed, i.e. 80kph+. I've taken this to PVP in Hampstead Gardens, they put their diagnostics machine on it and it reads that the error is "Steering angle sensor [signal not present]". This has lead to a replacement of the clock spring (apparently where the sensor is located) with a second hand one. However this has made no difference. I have seen PVP when they have had the diagnostics machine hooked up and the machine shows that the sensor is reading "0", even while turning the steering wheel full lock each way. So it seems that for some reason the HICAS computer is thinking that the steering wheel is never moving. We have also swapped the HICAS computer (the one in the boot under the parcel shelf) out of another car into this one and it's made no difference. The mechanic at PVP has also said that he used a test mode while he had the car plugged in that is supposed to make the HICAS move, but it didn't move. Anyone have any idea what is going on? The only other option seems to be to find an auto electrician that knows something about HICAS that can hopefully find where this problem is. Anyone know of any such auto elec. in Adelaide?

Gives me the same error for that vin number, you sure you have it correct?

Cheers mate, that sounds right for what's on the car that I'm buying. Wanted to make sure the car didn't have anything dodgey with it

Hi guys. Was hoping someone would be kind enough to give me some idea what the text in the attached image means. I took this from the Nissan FAST software, and is apparently the options my car came with from the factory. I have attached it as an image as I didn't like my chances of entering the characters into my web browser without corupting them somehow, sorry if this makes things harder. Cheers for your help.

I made a typo in the VIN number, it should have been ECR33057688, the form I had with the VIN on it was rather hard to read. Although I don't know how that was supposed to be a 0... anyway.

I hate to make my first post a request for someone to do something for me, but I'm looking at buying an R33 GTSt, can someone run this VIN for me: ECR33157688 Cheers