Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hi all,

I was driving today and all of a sudden the hicas light came on, nothing happened at first then after a while the steering got heavy and would jerk when i turned. the other weird thing is that there's a tapping noise coming from under my feet which i can hear and feel when i turn the steering. I am at a loss as to what the problem could be i ran a search but didnt turn up anything useful any help would be much appreciated

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/103136-problem-with-hicas-on-r32-gtst/
Share on other sites

Hui,

Usually when my light came on it was caused by low fluid level in the steering resevior, check that. as for the knocking noise, perhaps a steering shaft universal is starting to fail of is hitting something, check also the steering shaft rubber dampner

Hui,

Usually when my light came on it was caused by low fluid level in the steering resevior, check that. as for the knocking noise, perhaps a steering shaft universal is starting to fail of is hitting something, check also the steering shaft rubber dampner

i'll check them out 200 thanks

i got another problem i think theyre related my battery died this morning and alarm was goin off. chargeed it took it for a drive, the steering is still twitching and hicas light flashes on and off. need help please, has anyone had this happen to their cars before?

Have you reset the ecu?

Just a thought, could't harm anything if it is a fault in the programming or something

Yeah mate tried that and ran diagnostics no faults came up but i still got the same problem. i charge my car up drive it hicas light comes and steering wheel tugs when i turn, leave it over night battery dies again when i go to start it in the morning and this batterys brand new, its freking me out

You can try checking that your altenator is charging the battery properly and if it is, then you've got a draw. Meaning despite the car being off there's still power going to something and causing a drained battery come morning. Worth a check anyway.

As for the HICAS prob, maybe be a sensor problem that only acts up periodically and was fine when tested it, most likely (knowing your luck) it worked fine then and then crapped out later on you. These things are hard to trouble shoot so the next time the light comes on, do the test then. Hopefully you'll get an answer.

Good luck.

Cheers B)

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Finally got shipping number for the intake and throttle body, shipped by UPS, so "should" be in my hands sometime next week, fingers fracking crossed
    • I'm so far behind in the jobs I have to do at both work and home (including car) that I have become immortal. There's simply no way that I can die now.
    • Each to their own I guess  Me, I put just as much time into cleaning inside of the cars as I do on the outside As for getting wet, it is really no different than steam cleaning the carpets at home, apart from the cars carpet dries alot faster than the house, again, I only do it in the hotter months and leave the car opened up for a few hours As I only do it yearly, it is just before I do the diff and gearbox service, so I clean the carpets, then it's up on stands, wheels off, service, clean the undercarriage,  grease the bushings and do a nut and bolt check on everything  Disclaimer: I typically had all the time in the world to kill when I was working 馃ぃ, so spending a full day or 2 cleaning, serving and "looking at stuff" was,  easily achievable, and a fun mental therapy day As for time to kill, I retired last Wednesday, so apart from my physical training, my days are filled with lots of random jobs around the house and garden...."Idle hands are the Devils something something" I am also buying a new house sooner rather than later, I'm actually looking at a potential property tomorrow, I'm looking forward to getting a car hoist as I'm starting to get to old to crawl around under a car, I can only imagine all the undercarriage cleaning and looking at stuff when that gets set up
    • Yeah, I'm not interested in wetting the carpets, and I don't care about brown dirt/dust that lives deep in the pile or underneath. It's not like I crawl around on them in my birthday suit or eat dropped food off them (because there is never any open food in my car). The seats are alcantara (cheap Chinese imitation alcantara, to be sure!) with barely 1" of foam pad behind the surface. That's not getting wet either. Any car that I would be happy to get the interior wet, I would not care to put the effort into.
    • We have one that holds 2.8L of water. On floor carpet that hasn't been touched in 2 or 3 years, will take a minimum of 2 fills of the tank to do a bedroom, and that's going AROUND the bed.   In the cruiser, I used an ENTIRE 2.8L tank, just on the front passenger footwell. But it had some fungus growing, and had been full of mud from being used as a 4WD for many years. I can do that floor again, and it will still pull mud out. However, the water now only looks dirty, not pitch black and leaving full sludge in the bottom of the tank it sucks back into. Oh, and, this is about a $1500 unit.
  • Create New...