[s-cars] Steering Servo Disable

[Aaron]

Russ,
Thats a real good point.  It seems the signal is never seen as the
steering remains light at all speeds.
Aaron

Russ Panneton wrote:

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>I still believe pulling the servo relay just yields higher effort but no
>improvement in actual road feel.  Face it, the C4 chassis has numb steering!
>IMHO, a much lighter grasp on the wheel works as well as pulling the relay (or
>connector) while keeping the Mrs. much happier ;-)
>But there is another possibility here.  At what speed does the servo revert to
>high effort?  Is it possible that the "speed signal" isn't getting to the
>servo?  Can we change the speed at which the servo changes effort levels?  I
>know the "GALA" feature of my radio doesn't work and I suspect that's because
>my car's speed signal is absent...
>Russ
>Tim Radbourne wrote:
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>Being an S4 newbie and seeing this discussion yesterday, I pulled the
>wire off the servo last night.  WOW was this some improvement.  I
>expected to completely lose my power steering, but at a complete stop, I
>still have a very mild amount of power steering, and the feel at road
>speed is now hugely better.  Maybe still not quite as good as BMW M3,
>but close.  I don't think I want to reattach it ever again, and don't
>even see any benefit to wiring it to a switch for wifey, given that for
>me it is perfect even when stopped.  This will just make her less likely
>to want to drive it.... <grin>
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>I didn't bother to disassemble the glove box, just pulled it off the
>steering assembly down front.  Is there some risk to this mod??  (I
>think I'll put some tape over the connectors to keep things clean)
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>Things can't be this easy can they...  Why didn't Audi do this??
>
>Tim in MI
>93 S4
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com[1]
>[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com[2]] On Behalf Of bob.rossato at att.net[3]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:35 PM
>To: Rich Assarabowski
>Cc: 'Audi - Scars'
>Subject: RE: [s-cars] Steering Servo Disable
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>Actually the '92 and '93 cars do have a relay, it's just not in the same
>easily accessible place.  The relay for the earlier cars is behind the
>glove box.
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>Bob
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>For the older cars (like my '93) there is no relay.  If you have a
>relay, you can probably figure out which wire to break and run it to a
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>switch on the dashboard.
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>If you don't have a relay, you can disable the Servotronic (without
>pulling the plug on the steering rack) as follows.  I cut the
>red/white wire on connector #9 on connector station 1.  Connector
>station 1 is under the driver's dash and the #9 connector is the
>orange one.  Cut the red/white wire going to the orange plug.  To
>switch the Servotronic on/off, you can connect a switch here and run
>it to your dash.  I just leave mine disconnected.  Pulling the plug on
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>the PS does the same, except you're likely to get all kinds of dirt on
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>the contacts and it's not as neat as this method.
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>-- Rich A.
>   '92 & 93 S4
>   '83 Coupe GT (for sale)
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