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Hey all,

As you all know HICAS is a pain in the ass when it comes to reliability.

The other night I was driving my R32 through the hills when I had a whole mess of HICAS issues.

I had very heavy steering, It would steer the arse out unexpectedly and bang and jolt around corners. So I thought woo time to get a lock bar.

Then later on i noticed the voltage meter on my dash was showing lower than usual at about 10 volts and yes my alternator was stuffed. So i went down to Upull it, got my self an alternator off an RB30 and bolted it on and works well.

So I drove her around the block to see what the 4WS would do.... Nothing, no warning light no heavy steering and no unexpected arse movement.

This got me thinking after reeding a few threads on what other people are experiencing with their problems, Maybe some peoples problems are caused by a bad alternator. OR bad power getting to the solenoids or whatever actuates the HICAS. So maybe if your HICAS is playing up. Have a look at the power and ground connections for your HICAS this may be where your problem lies.

Hope this helps someone.

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this could be my issue too.. i still get the very occasional heavy steering after installing a lock bar and my warning light is stuck on

Is the warning light on all the time?

At first mine just flashed when the HICAS F*****d up then stayed on but flashed about twice a second.

Hey all,

As you all know HICAS is a pain in the ass when it comes to reliability.

The other night I was driving my R32 through the hills when I had a whole mess of HICAS issues.

I had very heavy steering, It would steer the arse out unexpectedly and bang and jolt around corners. So I thought woo time to get a lock bar.

Then later on i noticed the voltage meter on my dash was showing lower than usual at about 10 volts and yes my alternator was stuffed. So i went down to Upull it, got my self an alternator off an RB30 and bolted it on and works well.

So I drove her around the block to see what the 4WS would do.... Nothing, no warning light no heavy steering and no unexpected arse movement.

This got me thinking after reeding a few threads on what other people are experiencing with their problems, Maybe some peoples problems are caused by a bad alternator. OR bad power getting to the solenoids or whatever actuates the HICAS. So maybe if your HICAS is playing up. Have a look at the power and ground connections for your HICAS this may be where your problem lies.

Hope this helps someone.

glad to hear your problem is fixed, few others have also previously noted hicas is quite voltage sensitive

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