Hiya, Dodgy Dave here.

I recently bought an 02 gen7 civic SE Executive auto 1.6 Hatchback with an EPS fault. I naively assumed it was something simple like a motor swap out jobbie. The underbody looks like a 2 years old car - amazing considering we use salt in winter over here, but because it so good with only 83K miles i can't bring myself to scrap it..

I'm fairly spanner capable. A voltage check shows about 7 volts (+ or - depending on direction of steer driving the motor when its active, and less than 1 volt when it gets knocked out.

Anyway it transpires it has a wrong EPS ECU part number and conks out as soon as the car warms up - but none of the components get warm. I can't get the correct part number ECU anywhere so I'm thinking that considering the steering is real girly light with EPS on and heavy but usable when EPS is off that it would be easier to delete the motor so the steering doesn't have to rotate the motor armature before it gets to the rack. That's my theory but can anyone advise about that please? THE DTC is 41 - motor voltage.