I own a 2008 Bravo T-Jet 150 Sport. I'm driving it for eight years for 200.000 km, with hardly any maintenance besides regular check ups. Until last week....
Last week I started my car and received a power steering failure message, followed by ABS, ESP and Hill Holder failure. After searching this forum I saw many suggestions pointing to sensor issue or alternator failure, so not too worried, but did take it to the garage as I want to be sure if it relates to steering. Unfortunately they told me the power steering motor broke, and that the whole steering column needs to be replaced as this is Fiat policy. However this would cost me 1.500 euro excl. VAT...
and given the age and number of kilometers driven it doesn't look reasonable to me to pay this amount for this car.
The OBS error codes are:
C1007 Motor servo steering - Intermittent
C1013 Elect. steering systeem EPS (NGE) - Present, above upper threshold
I looked for alternatives and found several companies that revise the steering units of Fiat Punto's, but nobody seems to do Fiat Bravo's, at least in The Netherlands. One company told me that the Bravo's are not easy to revise so nobody does this. He adviced me to buy secondhand from a scrappy and ask the garage to replace it.
Summarising, my questions are:
1. based on the error codes, does this indeed indicate the power steering is broken or should I check for broken fuses, check connectors, broken sensors, replace battery (was done 1 year ago) or anything els?
2. is the general consensus that steering columns from Fiat Bravo's are difficult to revise
3. is there another option that would not cost more than say 500 euro (taking into account that I won't do it myself but need to pay someone to replace it)
Thanks!
Last week I started my car and received a power steering failure message, followed by ABS, ESP and Hill Holder failure. After searching this forum I saw many suggestions pointing to sensor issue or alternator failure, so not too worried, but did take it to the garage as I want to be sure if it relates to steering. Unfortunately they told me the power steering motor broke, and that the whole steering column needs to be replaced as this is Fiat policy. However this would cost me 1.500 euro excl. VAT...
and given the age and number of kilometers driven it doesn't look reasonable to me to pay this amount for this car.The OBS error codes are:
C1007 Motor servo steering - Intermittent
C1013 Elect. steering systeem EPS (NGE) - Present, above upper threshold
I looked for alternatives and found several companies that revise the steering units of Fiat Punto's, but nobody seems to do Fiat Bravo's, at least in The Netherlands. One company told me that the Bravo's are not easy to revise so nobody does this. He adviced me to buy secondhand from a scrappy and ask the garage to replace it.
Summarising, my questions are:
1. based on the error codes, does this indeed indicate the power steering is broken or should I check for broken fuses, check connectors, broken sensors, replace battery (was done 1 year ago) or anything els?
2. is the general consensus that steering columns from Fiat Bravo's are difficult to revise
3. is there another option that would not cost more than say 500 euro (taking into account that I won't do it myself but need to pay someone to replace it)
Thanks!
