Steering angle sensor

Same exact thing happened to my car prior to having the airbag recall fixed. Same lights on, same gauges not working and AC not blowing cold air anymore. No one has been able to tell me what the problem is. Have you gotten this fixed?

A couple months back the dealer replaced the passenger side air bag because of the recall. This same issue as described above happened to my 2010 Corolla LE. The car was diagnosed and I just had the steering angle sensor replaced (in the steering wheel). The power steering works now, the AC blows cold air, the speedometer and tach work now, all the lights turned off but now the "VSC OFF" light is illuminated solid and I can't get the light to turn off! The button to the left of the steering wheel doesn't do anything!

2010 Toyota Corolla. After maybe a week of recall service for air bag, speedometer off and dashboard gauges are all on. Toyota dealer blaming wear and tear of the steering sensor. Now need to pay $800.

Yeah the dealer tried to get me to pay $889 JUST to tell me what’s wrong because they couldn’t figure it out after an hour of diagnostic and $150. But I said nope.

GuruVZSJF Was it expensive to fix?

My car is still at the dealer. Don't have the part in stock.Wondering now,is it because all the "wear and tear" steering sensors they are having to replace?

That is true it could be. I paid $150 for the diagnostic just for them to tell me they still didn’t know what was wrong with it and that they needed more time. And now my car won’t even turn on.

How did they diagnose the car? And how long did it take? Were they able to read codes or even connect to the car? I’ve taken my car to 3 mechanics and the dealer for diagnostic.

Waiting; for the steering sensor to be send from the Toyota factory. I'll let you know when and what happened!. Bull, to me !?

There's only another way to tell manually input the codes which takes time, if they know how to by their qualify " technician ".

I am not a mechanic; I did not get any codes with my cheap Bluetooth Bluetooth obd2 scanner. This was over my head so I took my car to a shop that is known for being really good. I paid them $75 to diagnose. Not sure what they did but they said it was the steering angle sensor. They wanted to charge me $1100 to replace the steering angle sensor which seemed crazy expensive. I did some research online, along with getting the part, you have to take the steering wheel apart to replace the sensor. It looked more invasive then what I was comfortable with. I looked up reviews for other auto shops in my area. I cold called a couple shops, one guy said he would the job for $598 plus tax so I took my car to him. He had good reviews on google and yelp. He did not diagnose the car, just did what I asked him to do. (He wanted to charge me $100 to diagnose). He replaced the sensor and the issues in my previous reply are resolved BUT now the "VSC OFF" light is illuminated solid and I haven’t been able to get the light to turn off. There are youtube videos on how to get the light to turn off, I haven’t had time to deal with or troubleshoot the “VSC OFF” light issue but the car is drive able now. The VSC OFF light issue may very well be related to getting the steering angle sensor replaced. I may have to take it back to the guy and pay him $100 to diagnose. I don’t have time to deal with this yet. FYI…My car battery was also bad; I had that replaced as well along with the copper positive terminal connector that was destroyed due to a battery acid leak.

Same thing happened with my vehicle after the recall of Steering coil and airbag replaced!! Dealer quoted me over $800.00 to fix it! Toyota not taking any responsibility for the sensor shorting out.

Hi I had the same problem on my 2010 Toyota Corolla after recall air bag replacement a few month ago based on the review here I had to replaced used the steering well sensor angle and all the light are off the gage, steering well and ac works perfect. Thank you for saving me so much money. Bought it online $55 labor to replace 80.00 very easy only take 30 mints to replace.

Guru1553K Who did you take it to to fix it? I’m having a hard time finding someone to fix it because they can’t get a code when they do a diagnostic. And me being a girl walking into a shop asking to replace a steering angle sensor no one wants to believe me.

Good to know it was helpful and money saver.