One wonders what next? was at a local shopping Centre with the car parked in a parking bay on the roadway, and as I indicated and pulled out of the parking bay, the car beeped at me and a message came up "STEERING FAULT" and a strong smell like a burnt circuit board in the car. turned it off immediately removed the key and tried a restart, and of course it had difficulty in starting, finally fired up and I limped home with a very heavy unresponsive steering.
Anybody else had this fault, and the likely cause/remedy ? It was just about to go in for repairs to the rear end bodywork as a result of a neighbours newly licensed daughter running into the rear of the car on the 16th of December 2020. Fortunately that was confined to bumper and plastic panel damage and had the indignity of being duct taped to hold things together as we needed to use the car and haven't been able to arrange a suitable time for the repair. I don't suggest that the rear ending way -back-then caused this steering fault.
I note that at the last fill of Diesel the odometer was registering 212,915 kilometers so the kilometers have been building up, but not as quickly as when pre-Covid, we were doing almost two to three hundred km a week. With all the restrictions and other things our travel has been been Limited to Melbourne and not much fuel used in the last 12 months.
Any advice or owner experience, with this fault would be appreciated as I will need to decide if to fix it or move on. The only other major problem in the past was the auto transmission refurbishment some years ago, and I felt I got my monies worth out of the transmission since then. The main reason I kept it going.
Regards.
Ken
Anybody else had this fault, and the likely cause/remedy ? It was just about to go in for repairs to the rear end bodywork as a result of a neighbours newly licensed daughter running into the rear of the car on the 16th of December 2020. Fortunately that was confined to bumper and plastic panel damage and had the indignity of being duct taped to hold things together as we needed to use the car and haven't been able to arrange a suitable time for the repair. I don't suggest that the rear ending way -back-then caused this steering fault.
I note that at the last fill of Diesel the odometer was registering 212,915 kilometers so the kilometers have been building up, but not as quickly as when pre-Covid, we were doing almost two to three hundred km a week. With all the restrictions and other things our travel has been been Limited to Melbourne and not much fuel used in the last 12 months.
Any advice or owner experience, with this fault would be appreciated as I will need to decide if to fix it or move on. The only other major problem in the past was the auto transmission refurbishment some years ago, and I felt I got my monies worth out of the transmission since then. The main reason I kept it going.
Regards.
Ken