Ryan Maas

Nah, I mean, in my opinion they don't go hand-in-hand. As long as that sensor is lining up correctly, that's one issue solved. If your sterring wheel is crooked, then you need to get an alignment done.

I also had to replace the Steering Angle Sensor in my Edge. I drive a 2010 Edge Sport 2WD. The symptoms were as follows: • I had seen the stability control light come on a couple of times in the past, typically it was as easy as turning the key off, opening the door, and restarting — fixed it. • Driving down the road a week ago, and I noticed it come on as I was going highway speed, on dry pavement. I didn't notice anything specifically wrong, other than that the stability light was on... Until I turned off on an exit ramp, and I noticed the car's stability control kick in, then error out quickly. Again, I stopped at a stoplight, turned off the key, opened the door, and restarted. The light stayed off, until I was rounding a corner, and the same thing happened... the stability control kicked in, errored out, and turned itself off (light stayed on). So, what to do? First instinct was to remove the battery for a half hour, to let the sensor reset. That didn't work. After that, I was actually able to make the sensor trip by keeping the car in park, and turning the wheel. First, I called the ford dealership, asking if they had seen this, and what was going on. They told me it would be $135 to have the car scanned... I'm not under warranty or anything, so I have no reason to bring my car there, other than for OEM parts. So, I took it to tires plus, where I bought my last set of tires from — They scanned it for free, and told me that the code was being thrown for a steering angle sensor. they attempted to reset the sensor with the programmer, but that wasn't in the functionality. Again, I could have brought it back to the Ford dealership to see if they could even reset it there with their scan tool – but they wanted to charge me for that scan (even though I already knew what the issue was), and then they would have charged me for any parts and labor on top of that — likely around the $600 mark when done. So, I bit the bullet and just bought a new sensor from Ford. About $160 with taxes — pretty lame for a sensor, but what can you do about it. I was worried that simply installing the sensor wouldn't work, that it would need a flash or something like that. But, I swapped it out quick, and it worked like a charm. The procedure really is easy, I took some of my own pictures to add here. 1. First step is to remove the battery cable, and let the charge deplete from the airbag propulsion system. Remove the cable, and wait 30 minutes. Then you're good to start working. 2. Insert an alan wrench into the small holes on the left and right sides of the steering wheel. this will release the clips that hold in the airbag. It's a self-guiding pin, so you really can't mess this up too bad. I didn't snap a picture of this one. 3. Let the airbag fall toward the driver, so that it exposes the lead wires. 4. With a small screwdriver, pull up on the black tabs. These should come easily, so if you're cranking on them, figure out what you're doing wrong, and stop that. Because you'll break them. 5. Remove the airbag, and set aside, outside of the vehicle, face up. You should look like this at this point: 6. On the underside of the column, remove the three T20 hex head screws, and unclip the bottom half of the steering column fascia. This can be done with a knife or small screwdriver. 7. Once you're done with that, remove the main nut off of the steering wheel. This is with an 18MM socket and an extension. Super easy. I used a steering wheel puller for this part, but really it wasn't necessary. The wheel was held on with such a small amount of force, that I could have just given it a couple of whacks with a mallet or palm of the hand, and it would have come right off. Before removing the wheel, unclip the black clip with multiple wires feeding to it, found at the top of the airbag cavity. You can see this clip removed in step 5. When removing the wheel, feed the wires through carefully, be sure not to stretch or break any clips 8. At this point, your steering wheel is off, and your clock spring is exposed. This will have the yellow wire group coming off of it, that plugs into the airbag. You'll need to remove this by taking out the two hex screws that are found at the top-right (1:00) and bottom-left (7:00). this will just slide off and can hang to the side. 9. Finally, your steering angle sensor is exposed, and ready to be removed. There are just two more screws that need to be removed here, one at the 11:00 position, and one at the 5:00 position. Also, hard to see, but you will need to disconnect the wire harness clip on the rear of the right side, just where my hand is reaching. then there is a very small clip that can be popped out on the right. Once this is done, go ahead and slide that thing out, and get the new one ready. 10. As mentioned above, be sure to keep the arrows lined up on the inner and outer rings of the new sensor. There is a retaining clip that can remain on, and will release once you push the new sensor into the housing. Place the two screws back in there, and remove the clip. Also don't forget to reconnect the wiring harness on the backside. 11. Place the clock spring back on, in the same position as when you took it off (probably should make note of that). Secure with screws, and place the steering wheel back on, in the same position as when you removed it. I didn't bother with torquing to a specific setting, I just put the bolt back on until I felt it was plenty secure. No overkill, but snug. Be sure to feed the wires back through the steering wheel at this point. 12. Replace plastic housing, place screws in the underside. 13. Reconnect airbag leads, and pop back into the housing. 14. Reconnect battery, and you're good to go! Good luck out there.