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Re:Re:Re:Re:Steering wheel slightly off centre.
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I hear what you say. As per my post qouted, not even wheel specialists could correct it. I have had the jimny at least at 5 wheel allignment places. No-one could do wheel alignment with a level steering wheel.mlines wrote: I agree it has an angle sensor but you described an angle adjuster, it does not have any angle adjuster. You have to under some circumstances have to reset the angle sensor but the adjustment of the steering itself is purely physical.
After the lift the Angle readout does show a variation of around 7 degrees. You simply get under the car and adjust the bar until it is back at zero, you do not electronically reset it
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That then forced me to go to specialist in Cape Town.
Only once the steering angle sensor setting had been adjusted eg. 7 degrees out was set to -7 degrees the steering wheel return to level position when you start to drive and wheel alignment could then be done with a straight steering wheel.
How do you explain the videos clearly showing you no matter how much it is adjusted underneath car the the steering wheel return to a fixed position of 7degrees after lift, the moment you start driving. The only effect is that it now pulled left or right but steering wheel always 100% return to 7 degree position the moment the vehicle tyres start rolling.
Currently i know of at least 15 jimnies in cape town that the steering wheel only will return to level position if the steering angle sensor adjustment has been performed.
We are an extreme huge group in Cape Town, and all came to same conclusion with a lift and correcting the steering wheel.
Tiger wheel and tire is one of biggest wheel allignment places in SA and they all now follow the procedure.
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I agree with what you saying. I know I know.
That is why not even "specialist" could fix it and it took us months to work this out as the only way to get steering wheel to return to level and not to go back at angle.
My videos clearly show how steering return to the angle once wheels start to turn when you pull away irrespective of how the bars was adjusted + or -.
Dont ask me but it do happen.
Lets rather leave this for now.
My steering wheel perfect with my fix and yours are perfect with your fix.
We both happy
We do not get the LCV version only the 4 seaters.
Come for a holiday to sunny SA. I will gladly accommodate you a few days so you can experience this phenomenon, and proof us all wrong.
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I fully understand your point. You basically have a triangle and 3 fixed sections. If you make adjustments on one length it will result in movement on another point.
I showed all people your video when we tried it when they could not fix it. All confirmed that you are correct and that is how it should work and that is what they are doing. I am talking about highly respectable companies in Cape Town. the one is tuning/building racing cars. Believe me we have been all over Cape Town.
Unfortunately none could made it work on my Jimny and then solved it for couple after me.
Like I said it seems to have beaten 99% in Cape Town until I found a guy building racing cars and he put in a good 3 days work, and one suggestion was let's change the Steering angle sensor value. And see what ihappened. He had those car computors an it seems the bently for getting into suz compotor sustems. He was ģooď exctract and change crazy stuf
I still can't explain it but it also work on many after me with lift kits.
So I cannot ad anything more. More
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Does the car run straight both with the wheel at 7 degrees and after the solely electrical correction is applied to make the wheel sit at zero (but read as +7)?
If it does then there has to be some lost motion somewhere between steering wheel and road wheels
There is a torque sensor in the steering column that has to twizzle up when you turn the steering wheel, then the power steering acts so as to reduce the angular displacement between the two ends of the torque bar to zero. It has end stops so that turning the wheel with no power doesn't snap it off, but I doubt if it is anywhere near 7 degrees worth of displacement,
If the torque sensor had a zero error, the steering would just power itself to the end stop when you let go of the wheel though.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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This South African company have written a block post of steps. They are known here for their 50mm lift kits.
So very important to note that there are indeed an electronic steering sensor at play on the gen4's in South Africa and most probably also in other countries.
Cruicial is to use a wheel baĺansers/alignment spesialist that ungerstand electronic steering and have the obd2 tool to correct the stèring wheeĺ angle sensor percentage.
Hundreds of jimny attested that this is the only way to alighn skew steering wheel after a 50 mm lift, to bring the vehicle steering wheel back straight in SA
The electric steering component at the steering wheel value have to be corrected with an obd2 scanner writer.
des-sol.co.za/addressing-steering-wheel-...n-your-lifted-jimny/
My original post with videos and the whole saga to find out there are indeed an electric steering wheel sensor at play after a lift kit install.
www.bigjimny.com/index.php/forum/6-jimny...mny-pulling-to-right
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The main thing I think it would affect is the lidar system
The Suzuki workshop manual implies it is effectively self resetting by averaging the position and therefore assessing the average to be the zero position
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2003 M13 early KAP build.
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Member "lookonimages" is correct in what he says.
After making the adjustment the steering wheel wants to return to where it was before. So now the steering wheel is centred but if you don't hold it in that position the Jimny steers itself to the right slightly.
l don't know if it will re-calibrate itself, it was only a slight adjustment to the tie bar (1/4 turn) but if it doesn't we'll have to take it to the dealer and get them to reset it.
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l took the Jimny to the dealer and they reset the tie bar (l had marked the original position)
And "adjusted the tracking"
Anyhow, it's okay now. l don't think they looked at the steering angle sensor.
To be honest the angle of the steering wheel depends on road camber. On a straight flat road it's centred perfectly now.
But on a camber it's a few CM off centre at the rim, left or right depending on the road camber.
l guess that's a side effect of a steering box with live axles.
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