Steering wheel icon blinking?

[THATREDFK8]

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[martindtjr]

Need help?

EPS? Might be the Electic power steering.

 

[THATREDFK8]

EPS? Might be the Electic power steering.

What should I do?

 

[REBELXSi]

What should I do?

Schedule a service appointment if you're under warranty.

 

[MadMage]

What should I do?

Schedule a service appointment if you're under warranty.

And if you are not under warranty, see a mechanic.

Blinking lights are the car's way of telling you something bad is about to happen and don't drive me until you get me fixed.

 

[kefi]

Blinking lights are the car's way of telling you something bad is about to happen and don't drive me until you get me fixed.

I never thought about that.. blinkies are usually the crazy ones huh. but yeah.. definitely do not ignore this, I would get it checked out even if it cleared.

 

[DRUSA]

EPS failure as mentioned. Lots of things could set the code, I haven't personally seen any rack failures but this time of year in my part of the country I have seen many rodent damage related failures. Rodents crawl into the engine bay and like to chew on the wiring above the trans near the battery or the wiring that goes to the steering rack sensors. If you're under warranty, get it checked out, but be warned rodent damage is not covered under any Honda warranty. It's viewed as like "act of god" stuff and not a defect, so either get it covered by your insurance or pay to have it repaired. Honda recommends full harness replacements (thousands of dollars) but it's usually a wire or two that I can repair with a soldering iron and shrink tubing.

Cheap fix would be to disconnect the battery for 10min, then reconnect the battery and drive about 8mph in a straight line for a few seconds so that the EPS can relearn again. If the code goes away, sweet, if it comes back you have a larger failure that requires dealer visit.

Best of luck my dude.

 

[02SilverSiHB]

EPS failure as mentioned. Lots of things could set the code, I haven't personally seen any rack failures but this time of year in my part of the country I have seen many rodent damage related failures. Rodents crawl into the engine bay and like to chew on the wiring above the trans near the battery or the wiring that goes to the steering rack sensors. If you're under warranty, get it checked out, but be warned rodent damage is not covered under any Honda warranty. It's viewed as like "act of god" stuff and not a defect, so either get it covered by your insurance or pay to have it repaired. Honda recommends full harness replacements (thousands of dollars) but it's usually a wire or two that I can repair with a soldering iron and shrink tubing.

Cheap fix would be to disconnect the battery for 10min, then reconnect the battery and drive about 8mph in a straight line for a few seconds so that the EPS can relearn again. If the code goes away, sweet, if it comes back you have a larger failure that requires dealer visit.

Best of luck my dude.

This happened to me...rodent crawled up to my steering harness in the fk8...Honda fixed the harness...but the light just came back on. I'll have to check it out this weekend. Betting dealership tech didn't do a good job

 

[Type_RawR]

Mine flashes everytime I plug in or unplug the hondata when it's being a bitch and won't connect through the Bluetooth

 

[charleswrivers]

Recent battery disconnect or alignment? Steering angle sensor? SASs used to be a common hiccup on older Honda’s or was a part that’d go wonky though I don’t recall it coming up in the forum for our Civics.

 

[DRUSA]

This happened to me...rodent crawled up to my steering harness in the fk8...Honda fixed the harness...but the light just came back on. I'll have to check it out this weekend. Betting dealership tech didn't do a good job

From my experience, if you don't clean the engine bay with degreaser after the repair rodents will return. They smell droppings and think the engine bay is a hangout, without cleaning they return. It is not uncommon for cars to come back the next day or the same week with the same damage. I repaired the injector wiring on a Clarity last month only to have rodents EAT MY REPAIR that night when the customer took the car home, customer thought I was scamming until I brought him into the shop and showed him how they ate my repair.

Honda sells Rodent Tape, an electrical tape with rat killer infused into the tape.

 

[02SilverSiHB]

From my experience, if you don't clean the engine bay with degreaser after the repair rodents will return. They smell droppings and think the engine bay is a hangout, without cleaning they return. It is not uncommon for cars to come back the next day or the same week with the same damage. I repaired the injector wiring on a Clarity last month only to have rodents EAT MY REPAIR that night when the customer took the car home, customer thought I was scamming until I brought him into the shop and showed him how they ate my repair.

Honda sells Rodent Tape, an electrical tape with rat killer infused into the tape.

I keep my car in the garage. One day left it open after coming home...guessing something came in and just found those wires yummy

I checked and all is good and strangely the light hasn't come on...only thing I did was disconnect my flashpro. Be crazy if that was an issue

 

[omar0123]

Don’t connect the flash pro when car is on it will trigger the steering Icon it happened to but if you plug it when the car is off and then turn it on it won’t trigger the light this Hondata knows about this and fixed that issue with the newer flash pro

 

[02SilverSiHB]

Don’t connect the flash pro when car is on it will trigger the steering Icon it happened to but if you plug it when the car is off and then turn it on it won’t trigger the light this Hondata knows about this and fixed that issue with the newer flash pro

Ah. So I had mine connected prior to turning the car on, but it came out when I hit a bad bump. Then the light came on. So weird that it causes that. I just removed it lol. Issue solved

 

[omar0123]

I only noticed it when I plugged it in with the car on ,other than that no problem works perfect since its plugged at all times and if I unplug it and plug in with the car off it never comes on

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