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cliolord
09-12-2010, 23:43
I have only seen one other mk1 Clio with this problem.

Basically, was driving round a corner and thought the car was understeering as the steering went so light. We are talking car jacked up at the front with engine running light :shock: Infact, the PAS is working so hard that is you set the steering to central when stationary and tugg the steering wheel right then let go, it will run around to pretty much full lock on it's own! The pump sounds like it's labouring constantly unless steering is central and central steering play in the rack has occured when engine is off.

the French, they love giving us something to do don't they :D

kenny
10-12-2010, 09:13
Is it the same in both directions? and I assume you were not carrying out the test on sheet ice? Yesterday I parked up, handbrake etc. as I got out and locked up a fella said to me 'your car is rolling away mate' it was slowly sliding down a big lump of sheet ice. :lol:

A&P
10-12-2010, 11:02
Seen this once before on a rover steering wheel can be turned with one finger, turned out to be the rack on that car. The valve block had stuck so not relieving pressure, might be worth checking.

schakal
10-12-2010, 11:15
it is the valve block on the rack as said ^^^
time for a new steering rack .

Coops
10-12-2010, 12:57
as above,pressure relief valve on rack

Wobba
10-12-2010, 13:11
Is this a mod I can do to my rack too?

snowman
10-12-2010, 14:53
Was mine the other car?

Mine did this to a point where it would turn itself :shock:

cliolord
10-12-2010, 19:21
Was mine the other car?

Mine did this to a point where it would turn itself :shock:

It's your old rack Andy :lol:

Yeah, I know it's the rack chaps, just wanted to see how common it was.

Wobba, trust me you don't want your steering to feel like this :shock:

snowman
10-12-2010, 19:31
lmao ah yeah you fitted the whole subframe.It was nice in some aspects as it was really easy to turn but dodgy at speeds

cliolord
10-12-2010, 19:34
here's a little video of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6wI3JqOAY

snowman
10-12-2010, 19:36
yeah it used to turn itself on mine

cliolord
10-12-2010, 19:41
Doh! :lol:

snowman
10-12-2010, 19:43
looking at that vid though it wasnt that bad :?

cliolord
10-12-2010, 19:47
It's really weird, caught me completely off guard. Was pretty light when I first got the car on the road but then it just went so light I nearly made a mess on the seat! I have another rack spare anyway so no biggie

snowman
10-12-2010, 19:49
it was light when i used to have the 18's on the car so feck knows what 15's were like eeek

16v_paddy
14-12-2010, 02:22
Meh :roll:

Manual steering FTW :P