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Having a bad day. I was trying to center my steering wheel. Ended up accidentally opening the Clock spring unit.
Anyone with advice how to put this back together?
Few pointers:
If you ever accidentally or intentionally disassemble the clock spring unit when removing your steering wheel, just make sure you don't damage the wires when putting back together.
- you just carefully roll the cable around the center black piece you can see in my hand in the fist post. Then gently align and press it back in.
- our center spring unit is 5 - TURN unit. Turn without force all the way to the right, then turn back just 2.5 turns to get a center. The unit actually has a clear little window, and one of those orange circular rings will line up for you.
- After I put everything back together, my traction control was flipping out, I am guessing there must be some kind of steering angle sensor. When I turn the full traction control completely off, car drives totally fine.
- I tried the old fashioned calibration, turn the steering wheel all the way to each end at least twice. Turn off the car, start again.
Happy to report that THE TRACTION issue is GONE.
You have no idea guys, first that than traction control flipping out, I thought I messed up badly. So relieved all sorted. Cannot thank enough Tommy from MusicBox to be there for me.
I know this is an old post, but I ran into the same problem when I switched out to an F Sport steering wheel. However, the spring actually came out of its place as well. I managed to put everything back together, but now I have the traction control light on and my BSM is not working. I get an error to check it. Do I need a new clock spring or can I follow your instructions?
Originally Posted by Rossi
Having a bad day. I was trying to center my steering wheel. Ended up accidentally opening the Clock spring unit.
Anyone with advice how to put this back together?
Clock spring assembly
