57 Fox ABS Light, Handbrake light, beeping and steering locks while driving

[chrismcgawa]

What You Mean Steering Locks ? Do You Mean You Just Loose All Power Steering And It Becomes Hard To Steer

[netutgamer]

By steering locks, I mean as in the 'parking lock' the steering wheel clicks into a locked position. and will not turn, not that the powersteering has shutdown.

The VW dealership in question doesn't seem to understand how dangerous this is. Its mostly happened when parking however last weekend (the final straw) it happened when driving down the road, meaning the car would still move, but only in the direct it happened to be pointing in until the ignition was turned off and then the car restarted.

[Dedancey]

Hi,

I appreciate this post is now really old, hopefully it's still being monitored and I'm ok to post this here...

Did you ever get a resolution for this problem? I'm suffering similar issues with my 2010 fox, although the steering seems to be more a power failure than a locking issue. I bought it from a 2nd hand dealership 4 months ago and it worked fine for about 3 months. When the issue with the steering first happened, I didn't think anything of it and thought it was me being dumb and the wheel must have already fully turned when I parked it. Then I started having issues with it not starting at all and when I was driving it to the dealership to get the ignition sorted the handbrake light started flashing and it beeped a few times.

I mentioned it to them when I dropped it off, the ignition switch and starter motor were replaced and they didn't mention anything about the handbrake light. I've had it back just over a week and since then the steering has gone once, the handbrake light has flashed once, the abs light has come on then gone off once and the airbag light has come on then gone off twice (all separate incidents). And now I'm having intermittent starting issues again!

I took it back this morning but they couldn't find anything wrong, there were no faults logged in the computer and typically it started first time for them. They said they checked all the connections and they've done a system reset and to monitor it.

The issue may now be resolved and i may be jumping the gun with this post, but if it isn't any help pointing them in the right direction would be greatly appreciated