32 Gtr Hicas Light?

[R34GTFOUR]

hey guys, my younger bro just recently got his hands on a 32 GTR and noticed when he takes a left hand corner a little bit harder than usual the Hicas light illuminates.

besides topping up the oil and or removing the hicas and installing the lock bar, would anyone have anyidea why it would be going off?

cheers

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

^^If your fluids are up and your powersteering sensor is OK then it migh be a wheel alignment issue.

I gota similar problem atm.

It was just a slight Left Turn then the light would show. I cleaned the steering sensor with some spary my mechanic had to flush out the dust, grease and what-not. Checked and cleaned the connecting points and reinstalled it back in.

Turns out that the fix the problem BUT the HICAS light only comes on at Full Lock Left Turn.

Re-plug the dyagnostics computer back in and we looked at the steering wheel angles and what degrees its reading at.

The dyagnostics computer finds that the steering wheel sensor is out.

Turns out that the wheel alignment is out by 30 (Approx) degrees ie. Full Lock Left, it would only read up to about 336 degrees (somewhere along those mesuments)

Like when we did 1 Full Turn Left it would only read up to about 334-336 degrees. Back to Full Turn Right it was over 360 degrees.

From memory, he said its going to need a wheel alignment but manualy adjust the tyre rods (I think) at the same time steering sensor to get everything back to centre 0 and even on each side. (Funny thing tho, this only happend about a week ago but I had got new tyres, tyre rod and wheel alignment done at the start of the year) only till now it shows up.

So far we have Isolated the Steering sensor is out but still unable to accsess the HICAS Computer in the boot. The dyagnostics cannot seem to find a connection to it. So just have to wait and see.

Edited May 20, 2008 by (00)SKYLINE(00)

[GTS4WD]

Didnt have the exact same problem.. but very similar..

Cheak fluids..

Connectors..

Then wheel alignment

[R34GTFOUR]

cheers guys, will let him know

i havent had any dramas with mine yet *touches wood*