help! active steering warning light is on
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I ran over a rock the size of a fist today and all of a sudden my active steering warning light went on. Then I went home and shut the car off, waited a few minutes, and the warning shut off, so does this mean the problem went away? or do I still have to get it checked out at the dealer? I drove it around afterwards on some twisties and it seemed fine to me.
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Originally Posted by tyronebankz' date='Oct 27 2004, 04:37 PM
I ran over a rock the size of a fist today and all of a sudden my active steering warning light went on. Then I went home and shut the car off, waited a few minutes, and the warning shut off, so does this mean the problem went away? or do I still have to get it checked out at the dealer? I drove it around afterwards on some twisties and it seemed fine to me.
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' date='Oct 27 2004, 07:38 PM
[quote name='tyronebankz' date='Oct 27 2004, 04:37 PM']I ran over a rock the size of a fist today and all of a sudden my active steering warning light went on. Then I went home and shut the car off, waited a few minutes, and the warning shut off, so does this mean the problem went away? or do I still have to get it checked out at the dealer? I drove it around afterwards on some twisties and it seemed fine to me.
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[/quote]thanks! it'll save me a trip from going to the dealer
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Make sure that you don't have any fluid leaking. There is not a lot of fluid in the steering rack but you could have punctured something. If the warning comes back bring it in right away. I had my steering rack go at just around 1,200 miles and it took a while for it to be shipped from Germany and installed. My problem was a defective casting (there were a few 545's and 645's around the same time frame that were affected). Mine was out of service for 8 days.
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