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Henros

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Ok Dudes,

I just managed to fix the bastard!

I took off the steering wheel and the steering angle sensor. I then took apart the sensor and had a look inside, found a small circuit board with not many components. The whole shebang is not unlike the ball computer mouse - it uses photointerrupters and a black wheel with slots to sense the position of the steering wheel. I took some measurements and found a shorted diode, replaced it and it's as good as new. No more HICAS lights, yay!

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Hi Henros. My Hicas light comes on quite often. I had the car at the mechanic for something else and he did the diagnostic but isn't sure if it is the front or rear sensor. Apparently they are a linear potentiometer?

I don't know much about it but sounds like you were able to fix the problem.

Cheers,

Ben

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Hi,

What code did it flash when you did the HICAS diagnostic? Do a search and you will find the meaning of the code. I don't think there are wheel sensors for the front wheels. In any case, I was talking about the STEERING ANGLE SENSOR in this thread, which is mounted behind the STEERING WHEEL, not the wheel sensors mounted at the wheels. My HICAS diagnositic flashed code 23 - steering angle sensor neural or not present.

Cheers.

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