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The Hicas system on my R33 is playing up...

Usually it's fine, but if I drive the car hard for a while, then turn the car off and then if I turn it back on again say within the hour, the HICAS light stays on and I lose power steering, but If I let the car rest then there is no problem.

Any ideas on why it would do this? Does it mean something is on the way out?

Thanks.

i had something similar to this, however, it wasn't from driving hard, it was from just driving for a long time, like 2 or 3 hours straight, hicas came on, turned the car off, but where yours came back on, mine turned off, some people told be that there might be a slight dodgy connection at the hicas itself, but that has only happened to me once anyway.

but as borci88 said, check the fuses, i would also check connections as well.

I have pretty much the same problem sometimes.. turn car off, turn it back on and no power steering. Checked all connections and fuses and they seem all good.

So I replaced the HICAS ECU in the boot 3 days ago and it hasn't done it since... but probably a bit too early to tell yet.

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