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Fault code help

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Fault code help

Post by Zedhed » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:58 pm

Had the failsafe again today going downhill.read the codes and they are 55D0 & 4F8E18.anyone know what these are.by the way 4x4 light is still on.

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Re: Fault code help

Post by kkx5 » Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:26 pm

Steering angle sensor.

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Re: Fault code help

Post by Zedhed » Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:45 am

Been done mate.although i am still getting the steering angle sensor permanent code aswell,what evet that means.also dsc and hdc still dont do anything.

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Re: Fault code help

Post by kkx5 » Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:32 pm

Do it again.

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Re: Fault code help

Post by Zedhed » Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:37 pm

Shouldent to really,it was brand new ecp.only problem im having is that it wont calibrate.is it possibly because i dident quite reatatch the steering wheel quite straight.

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Re: Fault code help

Post by X5Sport » Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:22 pm

Highly likely that will upset the system.
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Re: Fault code help

Post by shodan70 » Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:06 pm

my steering wheel isn't perfectly straight but still managed to reprogram the steering sensor just by making sure the road wheels were straight when doing it mine worked no more fault codes

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