Powersteering And Hicas Playing Up (r32 Gtr)

[nustad]

I have the following symptoms with my GTR,

HICAS light comes on most times I drive it and stays on

Power steering assistance comes in and out - sometimes over assisted and some times not at all

I will take it into a decent place for a review but it would be good to check a few things myself first.

Power steering fluid seems ok

Can you check sensors for dirt etc??? I think it is electrical as problem disappears if you turn the car off and on.

Cheers

GM

[Topaz]

Plenty of help around:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...ghlite=%2Bhicas

To stop HICAS woahs, get a HICAS lock bar or a HICAS lock kit. The latter retains the HICAS system and stops it operating

EDIT: one other thing the R32 GTR HICAS system, unlike the R33's and onwards which are electronically controlled, is hydrolically controlled, so i have no idea what turning the car off and on again would do....but it seems to affect yours somehow.

Something that amazed me was that my HICAS light is now off, almost perminantly, after installing wheel spacers.

Also, I have no idea whether this would work or not but you could loosen the wheel nuts and tighten them again making sure to do them up in a cross-ways fashion so the wheel sits as straight as possible on the brake. There may be a slight pull to one side if one of the bolts on either wheel was done up completely before tightening the next one and so on.

..Sorry, I'll shut up now

[nustad]

Thanks for that - can't hurt to try. I have had the wheels off myself so will loosen them and then use a torque wrench to get the loadings even

Cheers

GM