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Hey ladz, ever since i put my aftermarket wheel on with a HICAS boss kit the warning light has been coming on after about 8 mins of highway driving..

i had the Wheels aligned today and the steering wheel is on PERFECTLY STRAIGHT... i also had some nissan mechanics look at it and check it over and its all A OK. they also ran a diagnostic with a result of NO FAULTS

but the bloody light still comes on... and it drives perfectly..

how can i stop the light from coming on, its very worrying to see it on when i drive, but i know nothing is wrong.

There is a fuse box in the boot with Hicas on one of the fuses... what happens if i simply remove this?

what other way can i stop this bloody light from coming on when nothing is wrong

Drill a small hole in teh dash and unscrew or break the bulb?

i know that sounds silly but i dont want to see the bloody thing, its annoying... especially when i know everything is fine..

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First remove the gauge surround then remove the actual guages and all you have to do is find the right bulb and twist it 90 degrees then pull it out.However i wouldnt rest till i found the reason for the bulb being on. Has to be a cause. Mine does the same however i havent driven the car for over 12 months so im yet to fix it. I have done the same as far as the boss kit goes. The workshop manual outlines the diagnostic procedure for HICAS. Dont trust anyone, thats my motto..

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Deren you've probably got the wrong boss kit. There are two for the R32, ON-110 and ON-115. One is for early model cars like ours (pretty sure it is the ON-110) and the other is for late 92-onwards (or something like that) and says SUPERHICAS on the side of the box. The lugs are in different places. I think ours is 2 and 7 o clock, later models were 12 and 6. Might be the other way around, haven't had the wheel off in a while.

And for the other guys, Beef said he is using a boss kit, not a HICAS lock bar. I think we all get the big difference. Using a boss kit shouldn't mean taking out the HICAS globe. Beef you may also be using the wrong boss.

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Hmm hope not as i doubt they would exchange it over 12 months later lol...Thanks for that though Mark. Could you take a look at your to tell me which I should have? Only if its not too much hassle to find out.. Might try google now, see if there is a HKB site

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on r32 its the green one with the white trace wire. bottom left hand corner of the smaller of the 2 wiring looms on the hicas computer.

dunno on R33, but get your hicas computer, pull the wiring out and then use a short piece of wire connecting each pin on the harness to its respective pin on the the computer until you find the one that turns the light on. once you've found it, cut that wire

thats what i did on R32 anyway, dont think it would've changed dramatically for R33

give it a go

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