Tilt Telescopic Steering Wheel

[jgriffter]

Credit goes to Mikec on this one. He mentioned the logic of "resetting " based upon a "zeroing out" logic that might exist on the steering column electronics. I just muddled around with the possible combinations using his idea as a basis.

What will be interesting to see is if the steering wheel travel lessens again and how quickly. I was so surprised to get the wheel fully traveling up again that I immediately turned off the easy exit steering assist once the wheel moved. So far it moves easily up and down the full travel when adjusted manually.

Those of you that have kept the steering wheel exit assist - let us know if the steering travel limit comes back!

 

[MrB0462]

Mikec got me thinking about shutting off the auto set adjust. I think the problem may rest upon having it on, getting into the car, starting and putting in gear before the seat and steering wheel fully go to their normal position and stop.

It may be that shortening the cycle screws up the settings and thus have to be re-set like Mike suggested. I think it would be fine to leave the seat adjust on if we allowed it to fully cycle before putting the car in gear.

 

[MHT]

Mikec got me thinking about shutting off the auto set adjust. I think the problem may rest upon having it on, getting into the car, starting and putting in gear before the seat and steering wheel fully go to their normal position and stop.

It may be that shortening the cycle screws up the settings and thus have to be re-set like Mike suggested. I think it would be fine to leave the seat adjust on if we allowed it to fully cycle before putting the car in gear.

I suggested that once repairs were made turning off the easy exit steering several months ago. I too felt that the constant cycle of the easy exit was causing the tilt steering to fail. I also turned off the easy exit seat as I can live with out these features but having to turn off something that you have paid for and that should work is not acceptable. If this feature does not fail in the Equus as I suspect that it will, we will need to find out from Hyundai what they did different with this feature in the Equus and have it applied it to our Genesis.

 

[zimmerman80]

Credit goes to Mikec on this one. He mentioned the logic of "resetting " based upon a "zeroing out" logic that might exist on the steering column electronics. I just muddled around with the possible combinations using his idea as a basis.

What will be interesting to see is if the steering wheel travel lessens again and how quickly. I was so surprised to get the wheel fully traveling up again that I immediately turned off the easy exit steering assist once the wheel moved. So far it moves easily up and down the full travel when adjusted manually.

Those of you that have kept the steering wheel exit assist - let us know if the steering travel limit comes back!

I kept the steering wheel exit assist after my manual reset of the steering column position. Yes, it seems that the problem is returning. The same old thing: first, I wonder if my eyes are fooling me, but then little by little the range of motion decreases. I have not tried resetting it again, but will when the range of motion gets small enough to annoy me.

I do not think it has to do with putting it in gear, or opening the door too soon. It just seems to go down a little too much each time, so that "all the way up" is lower little by little.

I'm taking my car to a larger dealership on Thursday and I will discuss the problem with them. This dealership is trained for the Equis also, so I'm hoping they are more competent than the sunglass-stealing dealership I have here in my town.

 

[ldrider]

Taking our 2009 in today. Tilt wheel finally locked up. It had been a problem off and on for months. It will probably work when I get it to the dealership. lol

 

[ldrider]

New limit switches ordered.

 

[vega]

3 weeks with the new control module, and all is still fine, crossing my fingers.

 

[MichaelOne]

I had my steering wheel tilt issued repaired about 4 months into ownership, and had no further problems until about a month ago when it started displaying the same symptoms. (Naturally, right after I had the car in for the 15 month service.) I thought, here we go again. But abruptly it started behaving itself again.

I wonder if the cold snap we were experiencing at that time had anything to do with it.

 

[MrB0462]

I had my steering wheel tilt issued repaired about 4 months into ownership, and had no further problems until about a month ago when it started displaying the same symptoms. (Naturally, right after I had the car in for the 15 month service.) I thought, here we go again. But abruptly it started behaving itself again.

I wonder if the cold snap we were experiencing at that time had anything to do with it.

Temperature should have no effect. Especially living in FLorida as is indicated.

It is not unusual for the problem to appear and then seemingly it fixes itself and then the problem appears again periodically.

 

[MichaelOne]

My part of Florida did experience temperatures in the thirties for about a week last month. As it did last year. Nothing compared to NJ I know.

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[zimmerman80]

3 weeks with the new control module, and all is still fine, crossing my fingers.

Could you look on the invoice and give us the part numbers for that control module? I may suggest it to my dealer the next time I'm there.

 

[vega]

Could you look on the invoice and give us the part numbers for that control module? I may suggest it to my dealer the next time I'm there.

the part # is 95450M100. it requires programming once installed along with a total vehicle electronic reset. Took 2-1/2 hours. So far so good on my 2010.

 

[Vince2]

I didn't realize this was an issue with my car until reading about it here...I checked the range of motion in the tilt operatrion and sure enough there was very limited movement. I "reset" the steering column as described in an earlier post on this thread and now the tilt worked as it did when new (range restored). I also noticed that the steering wheel moves to the highest position when the car is turned off and the returns to the prior position when I put the key in. It had stopped doing that months ago (I've had the car for six months). I don't know what is going on and it appears that there is no information in the manual about this...great car but I swear the company is still playing catch up and hasn't really joined the ranks of the top corporations.

 

[jhunterbob]

I was just reading through many posts. The bad module theory makes some sense I think.

Has anyone else noticed that when they got the steering wheel fixed that the back shade started working again as well?

I didn't even know my shade had stopped going up and down but once I got the car back I began hearing it go back up and down again...

My steering wheel stopped working again after a few weeks but the shade is working still. I'm going to try the zero out method and see if I get more range of motion...

 

[ldrider]

Tilt was locked up for three weeks. Took it to the dealer and they ordered parts.
New module has not been installed and the tilt started working yesterday.

 

[MrB0462]

Tilt was locked up for three weeks. Took it to the dealer and they ordered parts.
New module has not been installed and the tilt started working yesterday.

Not that unusual for the tilt function to reactivate itself.

Make sure your dealer doesn't just install the parts ordered but specifically follows the instruction in TSB 11-BE-003 dated January 24, 2011. BE = body electrical, 11 = 2011, 003 = third TSB for body electrical category.

What is extremely critical is that they follow Procedure B if your car was produced after November 10, 2009 and perform both the GDS (Global Diagnostic Scanner) actuation tests and confirm proper operation of IMS (Integrated Memory System). IMS controls memory settings for seat, steering wheel, etc.

Just installing the parts without doing the above is not correct.

 

[homeofstone]

I kept the steering wheel exit assist after my manual reset of the steering column position. Yes, it seems that the problem is returning. The same old thing: first, I wonder if my eyes are fooling me, but then little by little the range of motion decreases. I have not tried resetting it again, but will when the range of motion gets small enough to annoy me.

I do not think it has to do with putting it in gear, or opening the door too soon. It just seems to go down a little too much each time, so that "all the way up" is lower little by little.

I'm taking my car to a larger dealership on Thursday and I will discuss the problem with them. This dealership is trained for the Equis also, so I'm hoping they are more competent than the sunglass-stealing dealership I have here in my town.

What has been the outcome of the above and has the steering wheel stayed fixed? What info did you get from your dealer?

 

[kogu]

WOW...it worked for me as welll. unbelievable. All these visits to the dealer and none of them figured it out.

 

[homeofstone]

WOW...it worked for me as welll. unbelievable. All these visits to the dealer and none of them figured it out.

Glad to hear that the reset worked. For others here is link to the reset proceedure. http://genesisowners.com/hyundai-genesis-forum/showthread.php?t=6906

 

[rrazin777]

I believe I figured out the problem. After starting the car you have to wait a few moments for the seat and steering wheel to adjust prior to going into gear. If you don't wait it affects the logic in the pre-set settings. I can make the problem appear on demand by not waiting and going into gear rapidly after starting the car.
I hope this will help everyone as it has solved my problems completely.