R32 Gtr Random Power Steering Prob

[GTAAAH]

Just got my 32 back from the paint shop and the steering feels heavier to drive now now, quite a bit heavier, anything over 10 it's pretty noticably heavy.. it's like heavier than my other cars with no power steering, dry turning it it's fine which is odd, feels pretty light, the power steering fluid level is perfect and theres no warning lights.. also none of my belts have broken.. Could this be a HICAS thing? hope not, hate that crap

Edited December 8, 2008 by GTAAAH

[Mr Cali]

Quick question, is your speedo still working? I had a prob with my speedo cable and this affected the power steering due to the HICAS system. It would work fine on start up but once I drive it and get to 60kph it would switch the power steering off and would stay that way till I turned it off and restarted. Once I changed my speedo cable, all was fine again.

[GTAAAH]

Oh Yeh thats exactly the problem i had with my old car actually, um my speedo works fine, the odd thing is it doesnt fix after i restart it like it used to (old thing used to screw up every few mins, used to off and on it to fix as well).. also if i drive it for a while and then dry turn it it will be the same as if i just turned it on so it can't be the speedo/80kph thing.. got me very confused, cheers dude, anyone else got something to try?

[GTAAAH]

Yo so getting the car back from the panel shop tomorrow.. can anyone else suggest anything? I don't want to take it to a mechanic for this sort of problem because they'll probably have no idea (have had mates with hicas problems that have replaced heaps of crap and not yet fixed it)

Is it likely that it's HICAS? don't know if they had this problem on gtr's.. hope it isn't because i guess it could be any number of connections thats died.. Just doesn't make sense the way it seems light enough dry turning but at speed it's heavy.. is there some part of the ECU that could be screwing up?

[GTAAAH]

oh well, might just spend the few hundred on a hicas removal kit and hope it helps, not taking this to a mechanic to diagnose, none have any idea about hicas zz