[Donaldjames]

This weekend while  on a short ride about 30 minutes into  the outing the engine suddenly decreased in RPM from 2600 to idle .
Along with this we had the EVC warning "Check Steering Wheel "  I had never seen this before and looked into the manual for advice .  The only thing it said basically was to restart the engines and see if the problem persist .  We did so and the same warning happened, upon acceleration ( No more than 1500 RPM as we went into "Limp Mode " apparently )

My question to the forum is has anyone had this alarm and if so any solutions or ideas ? Secondly how do I get out of Limp Mode and clear the code ?

Thanks for any help .

2009 Tiara Sovran with Volvo 500 with IPS

[Donaldjames]

Anyone ever experience anything even similar to this?

[Sans Peur]

Not familiar with the IPS system but did you do some basic checks like fluids and linkage? I am sure that system will monitor things like that and if it gets low or maybe out of alignment it would possibly throw a code.

[Donaldjames]

Yes I did check fluids etc. I think through some due diligence I found a chafed wire behind the helm and I’m gonna need some help ( boat electrician )but I think I found the problem. Thanks for responding.

[Donaldjames]

Yes I did check fluids etc. I think through some due diligence I found a chafed wire behind the helm and I’m gonna need some help ( boat electrician )but I think I found the problem. Thanks for responding.

Update:  After running the boat for several hours and putting at least 100 miles on her my EBC warning is back up. We have the technician coming out hopefully this week and I will update when we solve this condition. Very frustrating

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Yes I did check fluids etc. I think through some due diligence I found a chafed wire behind the helm and I’m gonna need some help ( boat electrician )but I think I found the problem. Thanks for responding.

Update:  After running the boat for several hours and putting at least 100 miles on her my EVC warning is back up. We have the technician coming out hopefully this week and I will update when we solve this condition. Very frustrating

[Donaldjames]

We have solved the EVC warnings , turns out we have a bad alternator which was causing low voltage condition which confused the EVC fault .In addition we cleaned the contacts that run from the steering wheel to a wiring harness, there was a label on the wire with the word “steering” Which made it much easier to identify. So the combination of cleaning the contacts on the wiring harness and replacing the alternator solved the “ Check Steering Wheel “ code .
Cheers