I recently purchased my SC300 and the telescoping and tilt had worked perfectly. The battery was old, so I had replaced it. I put the key into the ignition (didn't turn it yet)...The steering wheel telescoped out and then gave a loud buzzing/grinding noise when trying to tilt down. It had me very confused that the replacement of my battery caused it to fail in tilting? I will try this DIY Repair tho and I hope it works. I'm just puzzled, but thank you for the information!

 

Your information was easy to follow and worked. Being a male -- the pictures are a tremendous help. The video is tremendous. Thanks again!! It works now that I have followed your advice. Saved a ton of money.

 

so ive gotten the washers in and what not .. but the up and down fucntions do not work at all. it goes in and out just fine though.

got it working ! the next day i was driving and decided to give it one last try .. so i just pushed the joystick thing in the up directions like 10 times. up .. up .. up . up.. and then down down down .. etc. and it worked !

 

THankyou so much this helped out . I just bought my car and a week later the steering wheel went out :P

 

I love this thread. I've done it to 2 of my SC's already. .70 fix

 

How do you fix this if the Motor is not making the grinding noise? I think something is wrong with my motor because it will not move or make a sound. I need to tilt the steering to remove the cluster.




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RCM, I'm having the same problem. My tilt motor will move down very slowly just a little bit and then stop. It is quiet (I did the washer thing years ago). It reaches a point where it just will not move anymore at all. The telescope function does the same thing, although I can coax it along by pulling on the wheel. I posted a question about this quite awhile back and never got a reply. Since both functions were having a problem I figured it must be the controller so I picked one up on eBay but it didn't fix the problem. I took the steering column cover off, disconnected the tilt motor and applied power directly and it still does not work, so the motor is bad. I guess they just give out after awhile. If you get at the gears (where the washer is) you can lower the wheel manually. I need to get my cluster out too because I have a burned out bulb that's been driving me crazy. I'm hoping the wheel is out far enough now and I can finish lowering it manually. Good luck!

 

Thanks, guys, for a great post. I feared, per the OEM manual, I'd have to take the entire column out, drill out the headless bolts, yada yada yada.

On the failure, I figure there must have been some type of soft sponge spacer holding the gear in place - sponge so as to help reduce noise, what the design of this car is all about. There was a black-ish gook behind the gear - telltale signs of disintegration of something, just like when the foam turns to mush around the air ducts. I used two nylon spacers (0.58" ID, 0.96" OD, 0.07" thick) making up 0.15" needed to rebuild the gap. A garden hose washer would have also worked. I also used a caliper to determine the proper distance to the center of the worm.

My steering had been iffy since I bought the car at 189k. Now it works better than it ever has.

BTW; if you need to rebuild your alternator it's a breeze; surf for an auto electric place in Spring Hill, FL; $35.90 + shipping for the replacement INR733P rectifier. I had a bad battery (don't drive the car much and it drained completely) that blew the rectifier.

 

I got my first Sc300 5 days ago. I got the owner down $300.00 because the tilt wheel is stuck up. Thanks for the post

PS I LOVE this car

 

sorry to bump an old thread, but does anyone know if there is a P/N for the blue worm gear?

 

Mine needs replacement too its all chewed up.

 

i think both the telscopic motor and the tilt motor on mine is dead, I the tilt cpu and I still did not get any power.

 

mine has play in it. like the gears and motor work fine but it moves up and down when i press on the wheel.

are there any bushings or anything to replace?

 

Great thread...My tilt started grinding about 2 days ago.

Once I had the plastic gear out using 2 bent wire ends as a puller it looks like the original design has a spring washer behind the gear. With the worm gear racking the gear everytime the motor changes direction, over time the spring washer begins to flatten out. I used 2 5/8" split collar clips. Total width was 10mm or about half of a dime width. At first I thought the plastic gear had worn but, I believe the way the gear is torqued by the worm gear, it is sliding left and right on the shaft and eventually slides out of spec.
Total parts...$1.50 and 1hr labor. Thx guys.

 

i have that problem.thanxs a million.