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Hi, if your interior or head lights are flashing (loosing power) when you are driving, it’s again PAS. Disconnect the power steering sensor form the pump. If the lights are now stable, the PAS is faulty and needs to be replaced. Replace with a new one from skoda dealer (about £100). Hope this help, ta

to nigelcm: A light on dashboard for PAS wont pass MOT, that’s what I was told in garage (independent) when I was having issue with PAS on my fabia. If you need to replace steering angle sensor, try ebay, I bought used one (unfortunately wrong one) for £35. I have thought there are just 2 specific sensors for either koyo or trw steering system used in fabias, so bought trw sensor from fabia vrs but it didn’t fit my fabia mpi. Better look for a spare part of the same car model as yours. Buy only from UK, EU models have shorter cable as they are left hand driving cars. Running car with faulty steering sensor might flat your battery pretty soon. Other than that it should not harm anything else (but I am car electrician, maybe someone else will react to my statement). As far as drying the water out of the sensor and using it again, I read on other forums that this might be successful sometimes but the sensor wont work for long.

Hi, I had issue with steering as well. Symptoms of my fabia 1.4 mpi 2000: power steering light on dashboard went on and off, steering become unstable and after two days steering become heavier permanently with the light on all the time. With lights on and steering, all lights were literally flashing. Fuses –ok, the liquid in the pump –ok. I’ve removed the nearside bumper grill trims and fog light, disconnected a power steering sensor from the pump, started engine, switched on the lights and “voila” no flashing lights indicated that the PAS is faulty. It was the old plastic one, replaced it with the metal ended ones which I bought from skoda dealer for £98 (august2010). A good description how to replace PAS is on fabia-vrs.com Hope this will help somebody to save couple of quid.