Edited by Webmaster on 30/01/2008 at 00:57

My micra has problems:-

• intermittantly the steering goes very light
• sometimes the battery is flat for no apparent reason
• like others the boot lock is faulty

Is the changing problem significant to the steering problem?

Edited by ShovelPick on 06/04/2012 at 15:23

It is worth having the fault codes checked, if you have the following codes stored then it will always be the column itself that has failed: 'C1606 - motor driver malfunction' & 'C1608 - control unit malfunction'.

This company supplies a replacement column that does not require programming:
ECU Testing LTD
http://www.ecutesting.com/catalogue/product/nissan_micra_power_steering_eps_-_electric_power_steering_eps180846.html

Heard some good reports about them and they give a lifetime warranty

Langdon

Great Post , many thanks

Just had the exact same problem with my Nissan.

Do you have details of the person with the diagnostics. Is it a national organisation

Papadodge

Hi

having the same problem, intermittent PS light comes on loss of PS. Did your problem ever return? please do you know the contact details for the mobile technician ? I would be very grateful, 05 nissan micra 45000 miles.

thank you

dave

Hi. My Girlfriend has the same problem. I will have to check exact model she has. Powersteering light came on. power steering failed completely a few days later, she had "managment system" reset by dealer which cured problem - but this only lasted 2 days. Dealer says need to replace whole colum etc @ approx £1200. She reluctantly agreed to this and over the last 2 months they have let her down repeatedly - not getting part in, no return calls. Overall - crap car followed up with crap service. Where are you based? Would rather bring to you for an honest assesment and repair... Please reply ASAP as MOT is now approaching thanks to Dealer/Nissan dragging feet and incompetence

I honestly dont believe how many people have this problem!! I have a 2006 Nissan Micra - same one of the comments above - the PS light flashed a few times over a period of a couple of months when i turned the car on then one day it came on, stayed on and now the steering is not working at all! Grrrr! Been to a garage and had it put on a diagnostics machine which says that there is not fault....judging by the above comments this isnt a good sign! Ive called Nissan who state that this is not a common problem and I'd have to take it to them....shocker - unfortunatly I need my right arm and cant afford to sell it to pay for them to look at it and tell me its needs replacing. The sheer amount of people that this has happened to with the same year car is shocking and Nissan must be at fault somewhere along the line....i dont know what to do!

i just went on google there based in london http://www.power-steering.co.uk/ or call them 0208 853 3343

t8769 is right on the money and absolutely correct. Nissan got into bed with Renault and reliability went out of the window. I had an old 1999 1.0 litre K11 auto micra as a second driving instruction tuition car- my main car was an 07 Honda Civic 2.2 ctdi. The Micra was a terrific little car with the heart of a lion. My auto pupils loved It and in two years and dozens of pupils I never had a pupil fail a test in it.

It never failed to start or let me or anybody else down, was economical and suprisingly, for a 1.0 litre car went like s*** off a chromium shovel-without L plates and me driving it used to embarrass the boy racers at the traffic light GP on the ring road.

Years ago, when the K12 micra first came out, I went to the local Nissan dealer looking for a demo drive in the 1.5 diesel for a tuition car. They couldn't oblige-their demonstrater, a week old, had broken down on the road and was being towed in.

I bought a s/h 1.7 diesel Civic instead and have been Honda ever since.

Get onto Watchdog and log this complaint! Then Nissan will be forced to admit it is a fault and give some compensation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/

I can totally sympathise with everyone who has had or still has power steering loss in their Micra's. This is a total disgrace - Nissan should be picking up the tab for this problem of their own causing. My story is pretty similar to most people's except we got lucky (if you can call loosing your PS on a car that has done only 12K miles albeit on a 54 plate). We got this car 6 weeks ago.

So we got a PS loss, impossible to drive safely at anything like a sensible speed, and impossible manoeuvre at something like 10 mph. Diagnostics done at a cost of £48, they even did the re-settings several times, (i.e. turn it off and turn it back on again) because the garage of the general problem the Model has incurred over the years. Garage quoted for a £390 reconditioned part plus 2 hrs labour total £564, only alternative apart from going to main dealer (£1200 - £1600) was to source one from the scrappers. We got lucky on two counts 1) we found one, quoted £80, and 2) we got a guarantee that if it didn't work we could have our money back.Today car is fixed total cost £48 diagnostic, part £60, two hours labour £80 total £188!!!

So my advise is ring every b***** scrap yard in your local region, and hopefully you too might have a little dserved luck

Final chapter of the micra sage for my daughter who purchasd an 06 micra a year and three months ago. After the power steering broke within 2 weeks of purchase and was reconditioned by Reman and after it has gone a further 3 or possibly 4 times (Reman were great and tried again on each occasion over a period of a year at no cost other than carriage, of course we had to pay someone to keep taking out the column and putting the reconditioned unit back in), we have given up on the micra. It lasted three months the last time and has now gone again. Altogether we spent £1,600 on this car over and above its puchase price and now are at a loss. We have managed to sell it for £1,200 in its present condition and my daughter is just glad to get that. It cannot pass its MOT without the power steering. She is now going to have to put more money towards getting herself another car - definitely not a micra - and so that £2,500 car will have cost us nearly its price again. Can anyone recommend a more reliable car?