5E43, 611B and 04 Slider Fault

[ScottR]

Hi all,

I have been posting a few challenges I’m having with my recent purchase in another thread but thought it best I split them out for ease of others being able to find similar issues and resolutions.

As per thread title - I have the Amber trifecta of tyre pressure warning, handbrake and DSC. Started intermittently, now appears to be every time I turn the steering wheel right at anything other than a snails pace.

Having searched and read various other threads my suspicion would be the brushes on the steering angle sensor?

Anyone able to offer up anything further?

When reading the live angle data it appears that the reading resets to 0 whenever I stopped turning the wheel regardless if it’s returned to centre or not - is this as expected?

Pics of the car pre and post a shower. Plus a spot at Tesco of a Zed in RC form.

 

[bigwinn]

If you search the thread I had on this- I found that without taking the angle sensor off the column, you can Unclip it, open it up by using a Torx 6 on the 3 screws you can re bend the brushes to make better contact

 

[ScottR]

Managed to find a little time this evening to have a go at this. Im not particularly savvy when it comes to these jobs but willing. It proved fairly simple albeit quite awkward. Interestingly it appears someone has been at it before and were perhaps a little heavy handed. The SAS was able to rotate on the column, so not plugged in correctly and I noticed one of the white plastic push clips has been snapped. Brushes look pretty poor by my reckoning but lifted them a little and put it all back together. Unfortunately I can’t now clear the errors at all. Beforehand I could clear the errors and they would immediately reappear upon turning the steering wheel. Now they just won’t clear at all. Could I have reassembled incorrectly (does the brush placement need to be as when disassembled?) or do I need a SAS reset to know whether or not the fix has worked? When I read the SAS data it’s showing as -1437 and not changing on moving the wheel.

 

[bigwinn]

Interesting that it wasn’t secured on the column properly

There is like a metal angled dowel the plastic housing has to clip into to stop it rotating with the column

The brushes don’t look too bad- contact cleaner on the metal faces?

Check you haven’t dislodged the plug too

 

[bigwinn]

Ah

And of course you’ll need to recalibrate the sensor…!

 

[ScottR]

I spotted the metal arm and assumed it needed to align to the sensors plastic bracket so that’s now all good. Went back on with a reassuring click. I’ll check the wiring is all in place but confident it will be as was all quite free with plenty of excess room for travel. What’s the recalibration process? Assume I can’t perform that with a Creator 410? Any relatively inexpensive tool for the job?

 

[bigwinn]

Inpa or ista

I don’t think creator will do it

 

[ScottR]

Thanks for your speedy and helpful replies! Unfortunately I don’t own a laptop (I sit at a computer all day so actively avoid them any other time :rofl:

Anyone used any of the ICarSoft stuff and know whether it would work to recalibrate the SAS?

 

[bigwinn]

No dramas bud

Where you based someone local may have suitable?

 

[ScottR]

Bournemouth

 

[bigwinn]

You’ll deffo have someone down that way

Zedebee

I know you’ve done sas calibration before I followed your original thread with the software flashing?

 

[Zedebee]

I’m an hour from you up the A31 before Farnham. I have a laptop and can do a SAS recalibration. Happy to have a go, but no guarantee this will fix your issue.