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Recently I was driving on the highway when all of a sudden, my car turned hard to the right by itself, basically crapped myself and instantly pulled over. I realized that afterwards I had lost power steering, my right headlight stopped working and my tails/license plate light wouldn't turn on.
I brought it home and looked in the fuse boxes and the only ones i could find that was blown was the ones for the front right headlight, and the rear tails. So i replaced those and all seemed good. I went on a drive and I had power steering and I was super happy! Until.... the s2k turned hard to the left all by itself! Scared the crap out of me again. I still had power steering though so i pulled into a parking lot and checked things out. My front right headlight fuse blew again and after turning the car back on i had lost power steering again. (EPS light is on) So I went back home and replaced fuses and I've tried to connect the pins and reset it by doing the steering wheel trick, i also saw that it blinked 3 times by itself and found out that means it might be power related? I'm not sure and I really need a fix fast!
Thank you so much for the reply! I read all of that thread today and tried almost everything besides tearing down the torq sensor.
UPDATE!!! I decided to use my brain (for once) I thought about how each time the right headlight went out so did the eps. So I figured there must be an electrical problem somewhere. Sure enough after exploring the engine harness I had found that the boost manifold had melted a part in the engine harness. Some wires had fused into 1!! After covering my hands in plastic from tearing these wires apart, I hopped in the s2k and tried the reset sequence for the 100th time, and after I started the car the EPS light turned OFF!!!!! So im not 100% sure yet but I hope that was the issue. The plan is to repair each and every wire and extend them to reroute over the strut tower and around the turbo. Once this is done and the s2k is back on the road I will reupdate! (will be about a week or so) )
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Alright I'm back again with an update as well as looking for more help!
So yesterday and today I finally got around to cutting out all the wires that were stuck together. I rerouted the FR/FL headlights and fan assembly up over the passenger side strut tower, and then the torque sensor wiring up and behind the fire wall and then came by the brake booster.(see pictures red wires).
All connections were done right and one at a time. I then reset the EPS module with pin 9 and so on. I had power steering, so I was gonna go take it on a test drive and as soon as I backed out and started turning the EPS turned off and EPS light came back on. I did notice that i could turn right but not left for some weird reason. I then tried to reset once more, and the light turned off but as soon as i touched the steering wheel EPS turned off. SO I said F this thing and took off the torque sensor because that was what everyone was telling me to do. I followed this guys instructions, https://docs.google.com/document/u/0...YE/mobilebasic .
After finally getting it pulled out and took apart, I see that it's not too bad, it moves freely up and down and does rebound. I will clean it though and regrease just in-case but it will have to be done tomorrow.
PLEASE I'll take any info I can get. Just a reminder wires were melted together and were defiantly shorting out. Maybe EPS computer fried? Sensor fried? I have no clue and I am really tempted to either drive without power steering or see if I can use the steering assist from a toyota prius (I've seen it done in a miata and doesn't look too hard.) I really hate the idea of the car steering by itself at high speeds. I want to be safe hahaha. Thank you to everyone and anyone that responds! May God bless.
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Please help!!!!!
