Re: A4- Heavy steering at low engine revs.

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Geoff_Whelan@3com.com say:

> I have a 97 A4 1.8TQ and I have been experiencing heavy steering effort
> required when the engine revs are down around 1000 or less. I park in a
> multi tiered car park and when driving around at idle in second the
> steering wheel appears to have no power assist and I need to shift down to
> 1st to get the revs up and then its more manoeuvrable.

Sounds like your servotronic steering assist has stopped working.
Note: many of us here consider this a good thing. I disconnected
mine to get some feel back in the car.

Pop the relay box under the hood, and look for a relay labelled
"SERVOTRONIC". Pull it, and see if the steering feel changes
any more, especially at lower speeds. If not, the servotronic
died. If so, it's something else.

You can get the dealer to fix it if you want, but I would rather
mine stayed "broken".

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