Power Steering

Hi 

About once a month or so I have the following warning flash up just before starting the van.

“have power steering checked, see handbook”

I have 2013 Autosleeper Dorset.  I’ve checked the power steering fluid and it’s full so not a problem there. I also don’t lose power steering as the light goes off when engine is on and as I said above, most times doesn’t come back on for another month. Has anyone else had this happen?

Julie

You may get some more hints about the underlying cause by plugging in a diagnostic code reader. It's probably a sensor complaining about something, but the warning message is a bit too vague to infer much.

Note that a cheap OBDII code reader may not be very useful in this situation - the cheap ones are really only designed for the standardised part of OBD - which is essentially about emissions controls, which this won't be related to. You need a code reader that can access all of the vehicle control modules and, ideally interpret them into text (though it's not a major issue if it just gives you a fault code - they are easy enough to find on the internet, generally).

Roopert wrote:You may get some more hints about the underlying cause by plugging in a diagnostic code reader. It's probably a sensor complaining about something, but the warning message is a bit too vague to infer much.

Note that a cheap OBDII code reader may not be very useful in this situation - the cheap ones are really only designed for the standardised part of OBD - which is essentially about emissions controls, which this won't be related to. You need a code reader that can access all of the vehicle control modules and, ideally interpret them into text (though it's not a major issue if it just gives you a fault code - they are easy enough to find on the internet, generally).

Thank you but I wouldn’t know what to do. Dumb blonde