TV8
Montreal
- Joined
- 8 Nov 2019
- Messages
- 565
Hello everyone, my 1st post here after picking up my new to me 996 Carrera 2 yr 2000 coupe last weekend.
It was a bit of an impulse swap for my TVR and now the fun begins!
On the drive home, the ABS Warning light came on and then on the next leg of the journey, that warning light was joined by the PSM warning light.
Very annoying and I have used it a couple of times since and the codes have not been there on start-up but both have come on within the 1st mile of driving.
Pluging in a code reader, I have error codes 4440 Steering angle sensor and also 5521 faulty data exchange.
A quick search on the various boards suggest that this could be a few things including brake switch and/or MAF connections, both of which I am going to try and look at over the weekend. It could also be harder to diagnose and I arranged for a post purchase check over in the next couple of weeks but would love the satisfaction of sorting this myself!
The Steering Angle sensor is the one that puzzles me though as I don't really understand what it does (apart from cause warning lights to come-on!)
I ask as on occasions driving home, I did think that the car had some tram lining on anything but smooth roads (I also had a base 987 Boxster for 3 years alongside the TVR) and on 17" wheels the steering on that was perfect. This could be tyres, my imagination, set-up (the car has had a lots of new bits on the front suspension), wider/larger wheels, different set-up and weight distribution to the Boxster or, dare I say it, the Steering angle sensor!
The car has had a recent diy head unit replacement and that doesn't look the neatest installation I have seen and one of the posts I read linked back to codes on the standard radio being required in the cars electrical plumbing.
Any advise or suggestions on how to proceed appreciated, so thanks in advance. I have the same user name on Pistonheads and Boxa.net and know how helpful forums such as this can be.
Graham
It was a bit of an impulse swap for my TVR and now the fun begins!
On the drive home, the ABS Warning light came on and then on the next leg of the journey, that warning light was joined by the PSM warning light.
Very annoying and I have used it a couple of times since and the codes have not been there on start-up but both have come on within the 1st mile of driving.
Pluging in a code reader, I have error codes 4440 Steering angle sensor and also 5521 faulty data exchange.
A quick search on the various boards suggest that this could be a few things including brake switch and/or MAF connections, both of which I am going to try and look at over the weekend. It could also be harder to diagnose and I arranged for a post purchase check over in the next couple of weeks but would love the satisfaction of sorting this myself!
The Steering Angle sensor is the one that puzzles me though as I don't really understand what it does (apart from cause warning lights to come-on!)
I ask as on occasions driving home, I did think that the car had some tram lining on anything but smooth roads (I also had a base 987 Boxster for 3 years alongside the TVR) and on 17" wheels the steering on that was perfect. This could be tyres, my imagination, set-up (the car has had a lots of new bits on the front suspension), wider/larger wheels, different set-up and weight distribution to the Boxster or, dare I say it, the Steering angle sensor!
The car has had a recent diy head unit replacement and that doesn't look the neatest installation I have seen and one of the posts I read linked back to codes on the standard radio being required in the cars electrical plumbing.
Any advise or suggestions on how to proceed appreciated, so thanks in advance. I have the same user name on Pistonheads and Boxa.net and know how helpful forums such as this can be.
Graham