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[Entwood]

.... The reason your car wallows all over the place is because the power steering needs a speed signal (from the ABS / TC ECU) as the steering adjusts itself depending on how fast you are going. Itwill be very light at low speed and get heavier as you go faster. Without a speed signal the car thinks you are not moving and is therefore very light. This means that high speed cornering can be scary...

That's not right.
The steering does get a speed signal as you say, but when the ABS fails the steering gets HEAVIER not lighter.

Totally agree with that Andy ... when my ABS ECU went intermittent one of the worst aspects was the steering suddenly getting very heavy at the same time as the speedo failed / ABS & TC lights coming on.  most disconcerting .. especially the first few times !!!

[vtecmike]

ok, well the steering feels fine, i started having a look at the abs tc ecu to see what 1 i need to get and i found the big plug that goes into the ecu wasnt in right.
pulled it off and cleaned it up , now the TC light is off!
the strange thing is the big plug doesnt seem to fit in its socket it doesnt seem to be the same shape?
is there different ABS ecu s for these cars?
It looks to me its been touched before , maybe they fitted the wrong one?
how can i find out which abs ecu my car should have?


thanks mike