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Richo

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Need some help guys,

Have an issue with my car, and i believe is Hicas related, anyone knows where i could take my car here in Adelaide for someone with good knowledge of the HICAS system.

My mechanic looked at my car and couldnt find anything wrong with it; And you cant really tell when you drive slow anyway, which he did. Anyway if someone knows of a place specialized please let me know cause this problem is just depressing, and cant find a solution.

FYI, basically the car wants to steer by itself, and it can be very dangerous when loosing traction through the hills, or even just at high speed on the highway... the car has a lock kit so technically the hicas SHOULD be disabled, right?

Cheers

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Hmmm.... HICAS should be disabled if you have a lock kit. Dunno about the 32's but for the 33 which I have I removed the whole HICAS unit itself and replaced it with a lock bar, not sure if the process is the same for the 32. If it is, I don't see how it could be HICAS causing your problem. Have you considered your alignment/balance might be out? Then again, I doubt this would cause the problem you are describing...

I doubt many mechanics here in Aus would be well versed in HICAS, maybe call a few workshops, see if they know anything about it, try Shaun from boostworx, he might be able to help

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FYI, basically the car wants to steer by itself, and it can be very dangerous when loosing traction through the hills, or even just at high speed on the highway... the car has a lock kit so technically the hicas SHOULD be disabled, right?

Cheers

Steering when losing traction can be a handful! :D

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AVS suspension work on a lot of imports here in SA. Give them a try.

and of course u dont mean u race or act stupid on public roads, because that give this forum a bad name, which is a no-no... :D

Definatly Scotty at AVS is the man for this job, works on many a many a many dorifto cars that i know of, top bloke tooooooo boot!

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Btw, has the HICAS light come on?

I know with the 34 you can put it into HICAs diagnostic. And if it's locked out it definately shouldn't be doing that. Suspect it could be something with your front geometry.

Anyhow, any of the above people should be able to look after you.

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Yep Scott and Vic at AVS are great... have known them for more than 20 years and have done good work on my cars.

Also had a problem with hicas sticking on with my old 32... took it to steve cramp at Manta racing who manufactured a lock out kit for me... fitted was less than $250.

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Thanks for all the replies guys,

No i dont race or act stupid on public roads but 80 through the hills, tight roads and the car steering itself mid turn is not a good feeling I can tell you that.

The light never comes on, it must have been taken out or something. the Hicas motor is not there is justa lock kit, but the computerr is, I tried unpluggin the hicas computer, but it doesnt help i just loose power steering when i do.

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well i took it to AVS suspension, just off South Road, very nice bloke, I THINK he just fixed it, but I have some testing to do tonight :rofl: , he did a wheel alignment and apparently I had -4.5 degrees toe in at the rear hehehe.

he also disconected a plug that runs from the front to the hicas unit, hopefully that made all the diference.

we'll see how it goes tonight.

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well...... the plug he disconected made all the difference....... made it worse. anyway, got under the car and pluged it back in, started the car again and it was perfect, it fixed the problem not for long thou.

While cornering hard, it went back to the way it was, checked under the car and the connection seems to be ok.

Any ideas what else should i be looking at?

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Called steve at Mantaracing and he didnt wanna hear about it, he told me to go to Nissan to get a diagnosis and then I could talk to him.

Called Unley Nissan and they didnt want to hear about it because is an import. :O , so after getting the same response from most dealerships, North East Nissan agreed to see my car. taking it next week.

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Ok, went to get a diagnosis of my Hicas and this is what I got. Apparently nothing wrong with it

but can anyone spot some clues on these information here. (apart from the steering angle, the wheels were turned to the left during the test.)

But if you can give me a hand that would be good, I dont know what to look for and the guy that did it didnt know either.

Cheers.

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