So my story begins from the day I got my GTI back 10 months ago, the steering wasn't straight and it was about a few degrees off to the left. The stealership refused to realign it under warranty even when the car was only 2 weeks old. Eventually I bought the Driver Gear Eibach springs so that would require the wheels realigned anywayz, so problem solved the steering is now straight as an arrow and I'm happy.. well not quite.
You see a few months down the road and I bought myself a Vagcom cable, when I measure the steering angle sensor G85 off the ABS module, it shows that my steering is at 1.4 degrees off to the left when in fact it is straight in my face. So I went back to the stealership and of course they don't even know our car has a steering angle sensor that compensates for crosswinds and horizontally uneven roads. I was like okay whatever 1.4 degrees couldn't be that bad...
Fast forward to 10 months owning the car and recently I have noticed as the hwys around Toronto got worst that I have to really compensate the steering when there are very gusty crosswinds and uneven highway roads. Thinking my steering must be off aligned again I went to a recently new mall parking lot across the street, with the steering wheel straight I drove up and down the lot but found that the car tracks straight enough. That's when I realized it must have been the steering angle sensor not being zeroed.
So here are the instructions to zero the steering angle sensor:
http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/steeringangle.html
Once you complete the procedure outlined on that page (correction, where it says Login 11, it's actually the Security Login button at the lower right hand corner of the screen, the code is the same), you will need to drive around the parking lot a bit with full lock to both directions and eventually the ESP and steering wheel lights will go off. The steering will feel very heavy at first as the system is trying to learn everything again, but once the system is done learning, the steering will be back to normal. When you come to a stop again, launch the ABS module and check the steering wheel angle sensor to make sure it's zeroed. I just finished zeroing and did a few blocks of driving around the hood so I would need to drive farther out to see how much this have corrected my steering.
I hope this will help some people out there. :thumbup:
You see a few months down the road and I bought myself a Vagcom cable, when I measure the steering angle sensor G85 off the ABS module, it shows that my steering is at 1.4 degrees off to the left when in fact it is straight in my face. So I went back to the stealership and of course they don't even know our car has a steering angle sensor that compensates for crosswinds and horizontally uneven roads. I was like okay whatever 1.4 degrees couldn't be that bad...
Fast forward to 10 months owning the car and recently I have noticed as the hwys around Toronto got worst that I have to really compensate the steering when there are very gusty crosswinds and uneven highway roads. Thinking my steering must be off aligned again I went to a recently new mall parking lot across the street, with the steering wheel straight I drove up and down the lot but found that the car tracks straight enough. That's when I realized it must have been the steering angle sensor not being zeroed.
So here are the instructions to zero the steering angle sensor:
http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/steeringangle.html
Once you complete the procedure outlined on that page (correction, where it says Login 11, it's actually the Security Login button at the lower right hand corner of the screen, the code is the same), you will need to drive around the parking lot a bit with full lock to both directions and eventually the ESP and steering wheel lights will go off. The steering will feel very heavy at first as the system is trying to learn everything again, but once the system is done learning, the steering will be back to normal. When you come to a stop again, launch the ABS module and check the steering wheel angle sensor to make sure it's zeroed. I just finished zeroing and did a few blocks of driving around the hood so I would need to drive farther out to see how much this have corrected my steering.
I hope this will help some people out there. :thumbup:
