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Hi guys,

Well for what seems to have been an eternity of sundays doing repairs, the time has come for my 33 return from hibernation to re-enter the roads of SA.

The car is by no means completely soughted out yet, biggest problem being that my HICAS now randomly spits the dummy, so no big drives on fast winding roads for a little while yet, but just to get behind the wheel of my pride & joy again feels great!

Fingers crossed I've got a fair idea what's causing the problem & it should only be a trip to a wrecker away from being fixed. Hope to catch up with all you guys again soon.

Cheers

Jared

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Each to their own. HICAS has always given me issues, my 2 previous Skylines included. Just piss it off, it's useless anyways

each to their own indeed, i quite like mine. had an issue for the first 2 years of ownership due to having a non-hicas boss kit. Once I got the boss kit on, the problems went away and the started HICAS working 100%... still love it

-D

Each to their own. HICAS has always given me issues, my 2 previous Skylines included. Just piss it off, it's useless anyways

each to their own indeed, i quite like mine. had an issue for the first 2 years of ownership due to having a non-hicas boss kit. Once I got the boss kit on, the problems went away and the started HICAS working 100%... still love it

-D

Yeah - I had issues on/off with my HICAS after I had some camber/caster stuff fitted to my car - but was great after the steereing rack was straightened up. Then I had issues after Regency saying my rear rack had 'excessive movement' (it really wasn't) forcing me to replace the rack - and the ensuing dramas with sensors that caused. It has led me to understanding the HICAS system pretty well, and being able to figure out issues with the various sensors on it though (After reading through about 50 pages of workshop manuals from various Nissan models).

I dunno - I quite like it on the street, but I can understand the issues it might cause if you were going to take it out on the track and push the vehicle hard. Each to their own - just make sure if you remove it, you get it engineered!

Or just run the HICAS diagnostics and find / fix the problem :)

Though I have considered a lock bar I'd rather just get it working for now, that & I don't mind it either.

Know any good threads I can go read up on this or people to see? I've got nothing but time for the next week.

Having some minor ankle surgery tomorrow so won't be doing any driving (or working :D) but will have pleanty of time to read.

My HICAS system is giving me the shits. I have a HICAS lock bar and the light never came on unless the 4WD light came on as well and I had lost power to the front wheels. Since getting my car back from the crash repairer the HICAS light comes on very frequently but I can't determine a pattern. Sometimes it is when I'm braking hard, turning hard, just cruising along at 60kmph, waiting at lights - it all seems a bit random. I'm tempted to remove the globe because I don't want to get into the habit of ignoring a flashing red light on my dash.

I'm pretty sure the problem with mine is to do with the steering sensor though not 100%.

There was a blown track on the board when I opened it up. Put it back together again but no different, most likely a damaged component. Dies mainly when I'm just cruising along for no particular reason.

May still be worth getting it diagnosed I dunno. But there was a lot of damage done at the column when it was broken into. Will have to see how much a replacement sensor is going to cost me.....

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