[s-cars] occasional brake light on start and sometimes difficultsteering

[Wylie Bean]

Check hydraulic fluid level first.  Any leaky hoses or x-plugs, noisy pump?  Have you ever flushed your fluid?  You may have air in the system that just needs to be purged.  Simple procedure involving elevating the front of the car and openong the reservoir, then steering lock-to-lock a few times. 
Worst case is your pump is going south and may need to be replaced or possible that your bomb has lost its Nitrogen fill and needs replacing or possibly could be re-filled by Dave.

Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Robinson <chapel976 at gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:46 
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: [s-cars] occasional brake light on start and sometimes difficult
	steering


So, I was reading some posts about the hydraulic system...
Once in a while (say once every 2-3 weeks) the brake light stays on for 30
seconds or less after starting the car. it normally goes away by the time I
rev the motor...
Also, sometimes when I'm at the end of my trip and pulling into my spot at
the train station, I go to turn the steering wheel from a stop and it's VERY
heavy... almost un-turnable... if I rev the motor, I get plenty of assist
though... It doesn't do it all the time though, sometimes it does it once a
week... sometimes twice.
I saw something about these two problems possibly being related...
It only really started doing it after I put 17" wheels on the car though. I
never noticed it with the 15" snow tires.

What's the story?

-- 
Jared Robinson
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