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Originally Posted by BrettRS

Minor update...I was working on the Fiat last night for hours and had to clear the driveway to get it out of the garage. First time I've started the BRZ since I drove home from the dealership on Tuesday was last night.



When I started it to clear the driveway, noticed to EPS warning light didn't come on and had steering, but I've had that happen for a few seconds before so didn't think anything of it. Stopped working on the Fiat around 10PM and pulled it back into the garage (OOOK, FINE, WE HAD TO PUSH IT INTO THE GARAGE!).



Started the BRZ up to pull it into the driveway. Again, no EPS warning light, pulled it into the driveway and let it run in the driveway for 10 minutes and had a snack.



Came back out expecting to see the EPS warning light return. No light though. Decided to back it out of my driveway and take it through the neighborhood. Drove around my neighborhood and all it's tight turns for around 8-9 minutes. No EPS warning light, still had power steering.


Parked it at 10:30 last night and decided if I had no warning light in the morning, I was going to drive it into the office and see if I was able to get the EPS light to come back and lose power steering. 15 minutes later at 7:45AM this morning, I turned the car off at the office, never lost power steering, still no warning lights.



So, somehow, it has gone from a constant failure to 'fixed' (I know it isn't fixed) from the time I drove it home from the dealership without power steering until I started it 2.5 days later in my driveway. Never unhooked the battery or anything. Didn't get rain or anything...nothing changed.



I'm kind of shook now. I think I'll drive it over the weekend as much as I can, have my GF keep driving the truck, and see if I can get the EPS light to come back and see if I can make it lose power steering again. Because there's no chance I am tearing into it to replace the EPS motor and column ECU if I can't get it to fail again. So need to get it to fail again before the parts arrive next Tuesday (vendor wouldn't expedite shipping for me).


I'll keep y'all abreast on any failures I can get out of it again...

Looks more and more like a communication issue someplace. Maybe that dead spider finally fell out of a connector!