Stevatron
New member
Hello be kind to me, I'm as much use with a toolkit as a condom machine in the Vatican! I've got a 2000 Seicento SX, and have owned it for a couple of years now, so I know kinda what should be happening! No customisation or anything, I wouldn't know where to start...
Problem 1
The power steering seems to have decided it hates me today. Got in the car, started it up, all was fine. A few metres down the street and the steering light popped back on and it was like trying to steer my mum's old Vauxhall Victor estate. Stopped, and restarted the car, and again things were fine for a few metres, then I could hear the click of a relay, the light came on again, and the heavy steering was back.
Dropped the missus off back at home and popped the bonnet, and couldn't find anything that looks like a steering fluid reservoir, so, what with it being late on a Saturday, decided to brave Kwik Fit (not my choice, it's just the only place open) and piloted my miniature battleship down to them. Halfway there, the warning light goes off and I have steering back again. They had no space for any more work today so I was dispatched home, and the steering behaved all the way back.
WTF is going on? My normal independent garage is near where I work in Cardiff, and as such is a twenty mile drive, which I don't fancy with suspect steering. And now I get the impression that the PAS is just an electric motor, so there wouldn't be any fluid to check!
Problem 2
In cold and/or damp conditions my Sei has developed a squeal when I'm pulling away which goes when I push the clutch down or when I get up into fourth. Again, WTF?
Thanks for any help anybody can give.
Steve
Problem 1
The power steering seems to have decided it hates me today. Got in the car, started it up, all was fine. A few metres down the street and the steering light popped back on and it was like trying to steer my mum's old Vauxhall Victor estate. Stopped, and restarted the car, and again things were fine for a few metres, then I could hear the click of a relay, the light came on again, and the heavy steering was back.
Dropped the missus off back at home and popped the bonnet, and couldn't find anything that looks like a steering fluid reservoir, so, what with it being late on a Saturday, decided to brave Kwik Fit (not my choice, it's just the only place open) and piloted my miniature battleship down to them. Halfway there, the warning light goes off and I have steering back again. They had no space for any more work today so I was dispatched home, and the steering behaved all the way back.
WTF is going on? My normal independent garage is near where I work in Cardiff, and as such is a twenty mile drive, which I don't fancy with suspect steering. And now I get the impression that the PAS is just an electric motor, so there wouldn't be any fluid to check!
Problem 2
In cold and/or damp conditions my Sei has developed a squeal when I'm pulling away which goes when I push the clutch down or when I get up into fourth. Again, WTF?
Thanks for any help anybody can give.
Steve