A few people have pulled the fuse for the Insight's power steering. Parking could be a pain, but how did people cope with it? Here is an answer. Yes, I'm considering it.
I heard at a meeting once that power steering being disabled might have consequences if you have some of those stabilization type features. The insight doesn't have these but I believe the Prius does.
Hi Chuck: ___The Insight drives and feels better without EPS from my time behind the wheel. I drove the last 20K miles without it and thought the road feel was far superior then the over-boosted EPS as she arrives OEM. Tom is right in that some ABS and possibly all traction control/stability control use inputs from the rack for wheel angles and that may be a problem for some automobiles. Tarabell and I pulled that discussion from the HCH-II hypermiling article after some digging. ___Were the steering wheel knobs called speed or suicide knobs back in their day? I thought they were outlawed way back when? ___Good Luck ___Wayne
We called them suicide knobs when I grew up. Most cars had them. I don't know what is more dangerous, those knobs or the way I "palm" the wheel to turn. I found the best steering I had was on my mid 80s dodge Shelby charger glhs. It had adaptive power steering. At low speeds it had lots of assist. At highway speeds none. *sniff* That has to be my favorite car. I miss it.
Hi Tom: ___Most Honda/Acura’s have variable assist power steering including your HCH-I but I find all of them are much to over boosted at slow speeds and slightly over boosted at high speeds … ___Good Luck ___Wayne
I could probably live without PS since I try to actually be moving, even slightly, before swinging the wheel around so that the tires don't scrub and pivot on a single point. So my close-in steering style is probably different from what most other people do, whether I have power steering or not. Very rarely will I have to swing the wheels while stopped, like really tight parking spots or something, but generally try to avoid it. . _H*
