tilt column
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12, '14
tilt column
in the older cars the tilt would get slack and loose if you used them to much. its always on my mind to not use tilt as much as possible to keep this from happening. anybody have their tilt go bad?
HOOK-EM HORNS
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St. Jude Donor '08
Tilt has come a long way since the 70's and even if it broke your worrying about it is making you enjoy your car less. Use it, enjoy it, if it breaks it can be fixed.
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This is a non-issue. I've had manual tilt adjustments on other cars too, including Audis, and this has never been a problem I've had, seen, or even heard of.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
Melting Slicks
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From: San Antonio TX
I agree that using the tilt won't harm the steering column...BUT there have been numerous posts here about the telescoping function causing a connector to come loose, thus causing a "Service Active Handling" code.
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This is a non-issue. I've had manual tilt adjustments on other cars too, including Audis, and this has never been a problem I've had, seen, or even heard of.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
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St. Jude Donor '08 thru '13
Only drawback to the wheel position I prefer is that I can't read the speedo very well, becaue the wheel's in the way.
I don't have the telescopic function, which is the only option I wish I had on the car.
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12, '14
This is a non-issue. I've had manual tilt adjustments on other cars too, including Audis, and this has never been a problem I've had, seen, or even heard of.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
If you apply this same logic to other things in your car that move, you should be afraid to use yor windows, seat adjustments, glove box door, hood release, hand brake, rear view mirror, ... I could go on.
This is not something you should worry about.
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St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
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St. Jude Donor '06-13,'16-'17, '19
Using the tilt often in the C5 did cause the wiring for the headlight switch to break. This caused the headlights not to come on sometimes. The wire harness to the switch run up through the steering column and was flexed each time the tilt was used.
I've not heard of this problem in the C6.
Tom
I've not heard of this problem in the C6.
Tom