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Hi Guys i would like to thank you all for your helpful advice on my steering problem. after checking out everything i posibly could I had to bite the bullit on this one and take it to my citroen dealer for an initial charge of £60 to plug it in for a diagnostic they contacted me and said they would need 2 hours to find the fault and repair and they are confident it would fix the power steering issue the cost was £90 per hour. the fault they found was a broken wire in the wiring harness from the sensor to the ecu they also re programmed the ecu. so the total cost for a broken wire was £240.. but i am happy to have my car running perfaect again, and it was all done on the same day . once again thanks for all your help with this Regards Steve

Thank's again Paul i am taking it back to my local mechanic on monday and i have printed out your information for him. is this info in the haynes manual ? if not what is the RTA book and where can i get one from. i have registered with the citroen service and dont mind paying for the access for 24 hours but i will need to log on at the garage for the mechanic to search for the info he needs, which he said shoild be no problem, keep you posted Steve

i just tried charging the battery, never had a problem with the battery before but saddly no difference after disconecting and charging up, power steering still intermitent, it has not worked for the last 2 weeks so i was about to bite the bullet and take it to the citroen dealers, but yesterday 6 times i started up and the steering kicked in from anytime between 1 and 10 mins of driving and 3 times it was there on start up. going to check out the web site recomended by paul to see if i can get the wiring diagram for my local mechanic Steve

yep topped it up with the correct fluid it took about half a cup, i dont have any probs with the suspension though????

its ok on straight roads but roundabouts are a bit hard, after 3 weeks of no power steering i have muscles in my arms like popeye, i do have the use of another car though, an mgf which is so light on the steering especialy now it has started to freeze, with it being resr wheel drive the tail wants to overtake the nose at the slightest turn of the wheel Steve

Hi i have had a look at the conections that i can find, yhey seem ok to me , but i will take it to the garage to have them checked , tried turning the ignition on and off, no difference , i even disconected the battery for 3 hours then re connect syill no power steering, still trying to get hold of a wiring diagram aas my mechanic sats it will help him trace the faul, thanks for the help so far, i will keep you updated Steve

thank's for that paul. i am not sure if the conection has been checked but i will have a look tomorow, i will try turning the ignition on and off as well, let you know how i get on Steve

Hi i have a citroen c5 exclusive estate 2006 2.0 hdi, i am having problems with my power steering, i have total loss of power steering on startup but occasionally it will kick in at start up and when driving, this has kicked in at any time beeteween driving off after 100 yds or 5 miles????, but it has never packed in whilst driving. i have had it checked at my local friendly garage who plugged it in to a bosch diagnostics, it came up with error code U1205 (steering angle sensor). he has cleared the fault code and re set the angle settings but this was when the steering was workink ok, acouple of days later it stopped working again so i went back with no power steering, when he had it pluged in it showed it was recieving different values when the steering was turned indicating that the sensor was sending the signal and sugested that possibly the comms unit?? was not recieving it, unfortunately he does not have a wiring diagram to progress any further with it, does anyone have such a wiring diagram??? you could supply a copy of? ar has anyone had a similar problem like this? if so what was the fix ? this is my second C5 estate my first was the 2.0L hpi and it was virualy trouble free for the 6 years i owned it, i think they are great cars (when running ok ) but expensive to fix at citroen dealers thank's in advance Steve