Staffamerica74
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Ok any idea how I can fix my tilt? The telescoping works perfect but the tilt is intermittent. Its sort of annoying to drive with the wheel not tilted at all.
Ok any idea how I can fix my tilt? The telescoping works perfect but the tilt is intermittent. Its sort of annoying to drive with the wheel not tilted at all.
the potentiometer isnt dead, just dirty, its a small plastic housing with two forks in it and 2 electrci contact slides, if you want to fix it pull the column apart, not fun, open the potentiometer box and clean the contacts with a pencil eraser, it will work like new. now i made this sound easy, its far from easy!
would it be beneficial to put a dab of dielectric grease on the contacts?
i have fixed many columns i have removed from cars i bought to part out that didnt work, first thing i do is remove the column, take apart, clean the potentiometer and put the column back in and test, never had one not work yet!! knock on wood.
bumping the wheel will not work eventually though! and bump it hard enough and you'll really be pissed when you see the ball bearings laying on the floor mat!!!!!!!!!
Mine does this too, the tilt seems to work only if I first telescope to a certain position. All auto wheel & seat functions turned off after stuck drivers' seat switch killed battery.
What I do when mine won't tilt on the auto memory is, I push up and down on the steering wheel while I am using the tilt button, it always tilts when I do that.