Folks

Was parking the motor this morning at work, stopped the car and turned the steering wheel to straighten the wheels. As the wheel turned I noticed the headlights dim slightly...so I turned the sterring wheel the other way slighly and again the lights dimmed. Even it you turn the wheel very slighly it affects the lights???

Is this a 'thing' with these cars??? The headlights on my previous Golf used to dim slightly when the electric windows were used, but thats it.

Go try it while its dark.....does anyone else's do this?? :confused: :confused:

Furby has an electric power steering pump so that could be why......

Chris

ahhh!!!

You may have something there, cheers

Yes it is a power drain, you can hear the steering whining like a cat wrapped in cellophane, I reverse/steer into my god awful driveway everyday and it affects the Headlights/dash lights/Courtesy light's.

Super cheers fellas, at least i now know it's pretty normal.

power steering pump pulls 40-60 amps :eek:

I think the new A5 Octavia pulls even more with its electro mechanical steering (no fluid at all).

Hence all the bleedin great batteries and alternators these days.

you think cars would start to come with two electrical systems these days wouldn't you, one for lights and ICE - the other for the essentials?

Regards,

you think cars would start to come with two electrical systems these days wouldn't you' date=' one for lights and ICE - the other for the essentials?

Regards,[/quote']

There are two new electrical systems being pushed for approval at the moment, one being 48V and the other 60V.

The biggest issue is protection and to stop Joe Public doing DIY work as 60V DC will produce one hell of a spark if you get things wrong.

Systems are available for electric steering, brake pumps, air con pumps, cam timing etc.etc. but the current drag is just too high on 12V to take full advantage.

Lee

Unfortunately, 'joe public' always has the habbit of tinkering.. if we got the two systems though in cars as standard it would be better I think. Now all we need is slots in the dash for Sony memory sticks so I can play mp3s off them - instead of all these cumbersome CDs..

Regards,

Unfortunately' date=' 'joe public' always has the habbit of tinkering.. if we got the two systems though in cars as standard it would be better I think. Now all we need is slots in the dash for Sony memory sticks so I can play mp3s off them - instead of all these cumbersome CDs..

Regards,[/quote']

But there you start having compatabilty problems - you need multi slots for all the different media cards.

If you get a HDD stereo no need to have anything rattling around.