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03-28-2011, 05:07 PM | #1 |
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Anyone pulled their power steering fuse?
Has anyone pulled their powering steering fuse? And if so, what's
your opinion on it? I decided to try going without mine for a while today and honestly, aside from the much heavier steering feel, the car feels multiple times better in my opinion. It seems much more planted and it doesn't have the left or right wandering that's so typical. I might just end up leaving the fuse out and call it a day, the driving feedback seems much better without it than with it.
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03-28-2011, 05:34 PM | #3 |
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I've had that disabled for a long time now -- I like it. Most people don't like it.
Even better is to also remove the servo motor from the steering column; I plan to get to that pretty soon.
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03-28-2011, 05:41 PM | #4 |
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Is their any possibility of hurting anything by driving without the p/s fuse plugged in?
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I have done some experimentation with fooling the P/S ECU and will eventually have a product to offer which allow configurable disabling of the EPS. Where, you'll be able to select options like having it on-proportional or on-full at low speed (<5, <10, or <25 MPH) and off completely at speeds above the configured threshold.
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03-28-2011, 07:02 PM | #7 |
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subscribed..this is interesting..but wouldnt this just gets rid of loose steering on low speed under 20km/hr higher should still be the same wouldnt it.
now where would this fuse be.. maybe i can rewire it to make a switch for it.. Last edited by marcus; 03-28-2011 at 07:15 PM. |
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The fuse is under the hood, but you could do the switching on the large power wire to the EPS ECU.
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03-28-2011, 07:35 PM | #10 |
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cool.. got to try this..thanks
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03-28-2011, 08:27 PM | #11 |
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I've driven around a bit more today without the fuse and the wander is definitely gone from what you'd normally expect with the electric powersteering running in place.
Now does the electric powersteering compensate to each of the front wheels? Like for example, god knows this car has no torque but sometimes if you nail the gas at a lower speed and the car really takes off, sometimes it has the reponse that your car is "pulling" to the left or the right until the torque lets up a bit. Since pulling out the fuse, when nailing the gas hard, the car pulls straight as an arrow with now feeling whatsoever that it's trying to put power seperately to the left or right wheel.
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03-28-2011, 09:22 PM | #13 |
is there any other difference? its not like on older cars where pulling the belt will give it more power, i know. Maybe just more stability in voltage or something lol
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The main idea behind EPS is not wasting power/fuel, driving a pump when it is not needed, so it is actually pretty efficient. When you are steering like crazy at low speed, is when the EPS motor draws the most current, so that is where you'd notice the biggest power gain from eliminating that load.
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03-28-2011, 10:38 PM | #15 |
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getting more interesting..
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03-29-2011, 11:07 AM | #16 |
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OK i tried taking the fuse on etcs 10 amps but the car wont stay on itll crank but it drops the rev to zero.. does battery have to be unplug too.
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