When I test drove the car, I commented on how light the power steering was.. I didn't realise that it was 'Too' light..

 

Suddenly it goes hard again for a few days (which feels..normal?), maybe, then light, for a few hours/days,

 

I've found when its 'light' if i break heavy, the next turn, its hard again..

 

Is this a common problem or does anyone know about it?

 

Also is it dangerous? - other than being too light, which I'm kinda happy with, felt really nice - but is anything going to break on me suddenly?

 

Where I light, I mean I could turn the wheel all the way round with 1 finger..

 

When I say heavy, I have to put a fair bit of effort in to turn the steering wheel with one hand, 2 hands is fine.. I do have a small steering wheel too.

You will find that there are dry joints on the speedo board. The signal from the speedo, to the ecu will be intermittent which affects the power steering. If you have a kmh to mph convertor (little black box behind the clocks) that may be defective.

You will need to take out the dash clocks to access the speedo board, not difficult, just time consuming.

It is a common fault on these cars, but not dangerous, just annoying

HTH

Graham

excellent :) atleast I dont need a new rack. I'll get the dash out next week and when i get confused i'll be back :)