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    hi all hope someone can help me with this i have a 03 plate vectra gsi which i just took through an automated car wash, drove home and stopped started the car again and there was no power steering?? struggled a few hundred metres and it sprung back into life, stopped the car again and it stopped working again no warning lights nothing?? would i be right in assuming that water may have got into one of the abs sensors or something similar as the car wash did a high pressure underside wash??
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    just tried again and no steering but no warning light?? odd also the 3rd brake light warning came on briefly but it still works,
    any ideas anyone please

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    Hi Rob
    you must have water on steering system ,the steering is electric over hydraulic.abs controls the braking system.
    first job check steering oil level.
    the brake lights have two bulbs to each side,if one fails the warning light will come on but lights still work,stand behind car whilst someone presses brake,look to see if one bulb is lit higher in the light unit than the opposite side .
    is the spanner light on the dash if so you will need to read the fault codes

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    hi mate yeah all bulbs are working fine must have been a glitch, as for the steering i checked the 7.5 and 80amp fuses all ok so water must be the issue somewhere, the eml light is registering 1530 as a fault which i made air con clutch fault(aircon gas discharged due too leak) but no steering faults registered or showing?? the fluid is a pain too get too but having said that makes sense as when i start the car from cold there has been a chaffing noise(goes away once warm) getting progressivly worse over the past few months from the airbox area i had all pulleys(cambelt,rollers,waterpump,aux tensioner and the idler pulley above the aircon pulley) replaced and the steering reservioir is right there so could well be low and transmitting noise from a starving pump. would the pump cut out due too low fluid?? and i guess water could have got into a connection and messed up the system,
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    check oil level straight away running pump dry will jake it,not too bad a job wheel,cover ,ect just a bit fiddley and time consuming expensive if you knacker pump

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    Cheers for ur help bud

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