General Steering angle torque sensor issue

[Bertie mullis]

Hi, I have just changed my power steering angle sensor on my 1.1 Active 2007 panda. Stupidly I did it when it was full lock right, I put it back together with the steering straight but now every time I turn the car on the power steering goes into full lock right. I have tried to re do it but it keeps doing the same. I did go to the garage to get it recalibrated but it hasn't worked. Any ideas would be really appreciated as I have no idea what to try next and can't afford to spend loads at a garage. Thanks in advance.

 

[koalar]

Oh dear

Best I can come up with




Did it need a torque sensor random fails while driving are rarely the torque sensor

Torque sensor fails are normally, vibration from steering wheel while stationary, feels funny while driving or fails at full lock in one direction

Use to be lots changed, however now we know more about the system, it's turns out to be a very rare fault

EPS electric power steering faults | FIAT Panda (Mk3)

First don't panic, the vast majority of power steering faults are normally simple and cheap fixes especially if it starts failing mainly in your winter months But unfortunately nobody can say change this or do that and it fix it. A lot of different faults will cause the same symptoms or the...

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[A3jeroen]

Needed to change mine (vibration) on my 100Hp. I took out the complete column (wheels straight) and changed it on my dining table (allowed by mrs Jeroen). This made it easy to install the sensor exactly in the right position before taking out the locating pin. This worked flawlessly even without calibrating which I did months later using MES. Look for my post on Bellezza Nera.

gr J

 

[irc]

Sorry, no easy fix springs to mind.
Only time I've seen similar was brought to me by someone ages ago. They hadn't followed (or even read?) the instructions and after a lot of fiddling about i managed to get it to understand where the centre point was, but they had already trashed the clockspring. I ended up selling them a secondhand column so they could get back on the road quickly.
No idea whether they fixed the original though.

As @koalar said above, most problems aren't even the torque sensor - I must have changed 5 or 6 before I worked that out for myself! (D'oh! as Homer would say). Haven't changed a single one since then, although I do have one which possibly could be a torque sensor problem, but I probably won't need to fix it as I have 3 or 4 fully working spare columns from scrapped Pandas.

 

[DaveMcT]

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