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Hi, new to the site and new to the import world.

I've had my r33 gtst for about 4 good months now, have had no problems with it at all until now.

So the story goes i was casually driving along and I noticed the hicas light flickering on and off and losing power steering also, i continued driving as I wasn't far from getting where I needed to go. As I started accelerating again it wouldn't respond sounded as if it was over fueled/ flooded. I basically pulled over turned it off left it for about halve an hour, went back battery was dead.

Soo. The next day I replaced the battery as I noticed the battery I had in was pretty old. Drove fine for the past two day until this afternoon where it seems to be doing the same thing again? I don't know much about these cars and am wondering if anyone else has experience the same problem and can point me in the right direction of diagnosing the problem?

Thanks heaps

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HICAS problems shouldnt affect the engine/engine ECU so perhaps you have a bigger problem?

Have you done anything at all to the car recently? did tthe battery cable look O.K? If its a standard ECU can you get any fault codes out of it?

Sounds like more than one issue here, and I would look at whatever is causing the engine issue first as if its something electrical it may be shared with the HICAS ECU and fixing it will fix both problems

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It's currently completely stock. Other than the battery I haven't touched a thing on it.

The battery cables looked fine no visual signs of a bad connection.

I just went to put it back in the driveway and it took longer to crank as if the battery is dead again. Would you think if the battery is low on power again it could affect the ecu's functions

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Altenator? Yeah that'll do it, R terminal wire dodgy means the altenator would not have been charging properly or at all

figured it must have been a general electrical issue for 2 systems to be playing up like that

Easy fix, good to hear :)

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