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AuthorMessaged-9
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:53 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Still after a faulty one of these, if anyone is prepared to mail it to seattle.

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jjvincent
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:21 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Itsamoto wrote:

@JJV Do you think the board is common then among other VWs? I see the form factor on other VW's of this generation is larger and more square - makes me think the components are spread out a bit more - perhaps saving itself from this wear-down.

The internal design is the same but the packaging is different. It's like the 4 way flasher. The one in my Jetta and EV do the same exact thing but when you take them apart, the circuit board is set up different. At the end of the day, the steering angle sensors do the same thing but each one is made to fit that particular vehicle.

It's just like a steering angle sensor on a BMW 3 series and 5 series. Same Teves MK60 system, steering angle sensor is mounted about halfway down the steering shaft yet you can't interchange the two. They will plug in but physically won't fit.

A friend of mine has a machine shop that builds lots of assembly equipment for the automotive industry. He's even told me that if Honda ever decides to make a common motor mount, he'd lose lots of business. Last time I was there he had a machine to assemble a motor mount for a Civic and one for an Accord. Both mounts looked similar yet were different.

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Formaldegid
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:47 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

I found this topic really useful so I've decided to register here and share my resolution of the same problem: 1) I've restored original routes with wires and painted inner circle with Oriflame nail lacquer (stolen from wife ): 2) Bought a paper organizer and cut a circle from it: 3) Finally. I hope this should perform well. Glued to the base with the same lacquer:

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IdeaNerd
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

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midwestOutreach
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Mine is defective so I have been looking for a replacement part ever since. Even have a WTB ad posted in the classified! I shall look into this ! Thanks! I'll report the results, won't get to it for another 2 weeks at least! Gracias

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Formaldegid
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

My repairing was successful. For those who might be interested in setting the sensor into correct position - here are photos with installed sensor. Steering wheel is heading direct, ODIS shows steering angle to be 0.0 degrees. Here is how it looks from the inside:

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Itsamoto
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Awesome work! I'm going to try figure out if I can fix mine now - because these are $500! Thanks for the great pictures!

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elise111
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Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

I contacted Formaldegid since the pics no longer show in this thread. He was kind enough to point me to another site that had his excellent write up. I will give this a try! https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp...2236348%2F

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dsheon
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Just want to say the person who figured out this fix had the sensor go bad at about 205,000 miles. I'm at 190,000 and it's gone bad. What a mess. No aftermarket products work. No alternatives. One available on eBay used for over $800 that will go bad as well one day. Anyone else do this fix and have it work? It looks so complicated fixing wiring on a circuit board was not in the VW Eurovan owner job description.

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Formaldegid
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

But what is wrong with self-repair? I made quite a good description with photos. If you are afraid to do it by yourself then go and find mobile phone service. They should be able to do it. From the technical point of view this kind of job is 5 out of 10. In other words - not so complicated but can be worth 20-50 bucks I think, even in USA

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bigfoot_ev
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Location: Anacortes, WA

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Steering Position Sensor & now Yaw Rate Sensor

Formaldegid that is an awesome repair and thanks for sharing (I used the google translate version posted above)! I recently had my steering angle sensor off to fix foam blowing out the dash vents. I treated it like it was made of gold, well more like thin crystal. Has the plastic paper organizer held up? Would you recommend doing this to prevent problems? I also wonder about using a thin flexible cutting board. Sand paper the back and epoxy in place. Doing something like this before there are problems is easy. Once the traces are rubbed off it makes it more challenging, but possible like you demonstrated.

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