quite warm today. Battery usually shows up more First thing after a frost ?
quite warm today. Battery usually shows up more First thing after a frost ?
How often should I be doing longer journeys to keep battery happy? Everyday or a couple of times a week?
Turning the city steering on and then off didn’t cause the light to go out
C1002 is the torque sensor. They are not costly to replace so do that and see what happens.
This isn't a battery issue.
Whilst it's always the first thing to check, and it accounts for a lot of power steering problems, the battery isn't always the culprit. I've seen Panda ePAS problems with a 100% known good fully charged brand new battery.
In this case, there's plenty of power; if there wasn't, the relay would trip out and cut the supply to the motor. This isn't happening here, even when the power demand is increased by putting it into city mode.
What we need to figure out is why putting the steering into city mode can (at least temporarily) put out the light. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen; I'm certain it's not a coincidence.
An intermittent electrical connection somewhere, perhaps an earth, that's restored by putting extra current through the circuit?
One thing's for sure; there's not many garages I'd trust to diagnose this one correctly.
Okay, all I can do is keep an eye on it.
Is this an intermittent fault though, the code c1002, and could it be that it might not appear again for another few months or so?
Is this an intermittent fault though, the code c1002, and could it be that it might not appear again for another few months or so?
Is this an intermittent fault though, the code c1002, and could it be that it might not appear again for another few months or so?
Just be aware the steering could go unexpectedly heavy; not a problem if you're prepared for it, and the car will still be completely controllable. If you want to budget for an absolute
As we have learnt more about how these electric power steering systems fail less and less have need major repair which seeing the car are older points to the steering system being fairly reliable