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Old 09-09-2015, 03:04 PM   #380
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Originally Posted by cf6mech View Post
What's interesting is the power steering still works, although in a degraded sense.....totally drivable and only noticed as degraded in very slow speed driving like 5MPH or slower..and then it just requires a little more force than normal....Found out in goes in a default mode if a can signal can not be recognised.....which still provides assisted steering.....
My (totally non-researched and unfounded) hypotheses would be that it is defaulting to a safe-at-speed level of boost. When it receives a CAN signal indicating that the car is traveling at a slower speed, then it will increase the boost.
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