Hi all
This is for my wife shes just past her test and is a bit miffed as few things wrong with motor (2001 punto) shes owned for around 5 months and has been fine except a few niggles which ill move onto in a bit but first
I would be very grateful for any info on the power steering I have read about it on this forum and others and hoping its not fooked about a week after passing test which was 2 weeks ago she was parking and power steering stopped working it was at night so I left it until morning and started it up it was fine, however she went for approx 20m drive all was fine parked up and let it sit for 2hrs and started it up no power steering again, same thing the next day all right first time starting but any time after no good well I had a look yesterday checked voltage on battery 12.70v before taking her out with no steering up the motorway and back battery 13.40v just thought id mention this also have noticed clock reset itself every now and then like its been disconnected any how I got back from motorway and let it sit for 5 mins still no joy so had a poke round under neath steering and also in engine looking for anything loose or not connected properly and it was all looking fine how ever when I jumped back after poking around power steering was fine and was fine for the rest of the day whith lots of starts stops ect to see would it go off again but it was fine until this morning,has any one any ideas could it be bad earth, alternator ,battery ect ect if so how do I check, currently out of work with back and debts are mounting so cant afford garage at mo , is it safe to drive with no power steering will it do any more damage to anything else, I want to have another poke around and unplug any plugs and reconnect them is this alright I wont mess up the ecu or anything will I ? I had a vectra once and it played holy fook when I unplugged it all
Thanks all for reading and hopefully some one can help us out a bit
This is for my wife shes just past her test and is a bit miffed as few things wrong with motor (2001 punto) shes owned for around 5 months and has been fine except a few niggles which ill move onto in a bit but first
I would be very grateful for any info on the power steering I have read about it on this forum and others and hoping its not fooked about a week after passing test which was 2 weeks ago she was parking and power steering stopped working it was at night so I left it until morning and started it up it was fine, however she went for approx 20m drive all was fine parked up and let it sit for 2hrs and started it up no power steering again, same thing the next day all right first time starting but any time after no good well I had a look yesterday checked voltage on battery 12.70v before taking her out with no steering up the motorway and back battery 13.40v just thought id mention this also have noticed clock reset itself every now and then like its been disconnected any how I got back from motorway and let it sit for 5 mins still no joy so had a poke round under neath steering and also in engine looking for anything loose or not connected properly and it was all looking fine how ever when I jumped back after poking around power steering was fine and was fine for the rest of the day whith lots of starts stops ect to see would it go off again but it was fine until this morning,has any one any ideas could it be bad earth, alternator ,battery ect ect if so how do I check, currently out of work with back and debts are mounting so cant afford garage at mo , is it safe to drive with no power steering will it do any more damage to anything else, I want to have another poke around and unplug any plugs and reconnect them is this alright I wont mess up the ecu or anything will I ? I had a vectra once and it played holy fook when I unplugged it all
Thanks all for reading and hopefully some one can help us out a bit