[dazmond]

so ive had my van a couple of months now(its  just done 1000 miles) and my power steering goes on my way home from work today!

so i pull over and stop the engine and start it again and its working fine again.the assisted steering are electronic on these (i think).

anyone else had this on the new version of the connect?

[Lee GLS]

I have this happen to a cmax. The steering racks have an electrical motor rather than a hydraulic one. Mine came up with power steering malfunction, I stopped and started to engine and it then said power steering failure, it was so heavy I could barely turn the wheel, much heavier than trying to turn hydraulic power steering.

I had the rac come out reset the fault codes then it was fine. It had been raining really hard and I think water must have got in somewhere and flashed up a fault.

You should get the fault codes read, you don't want to get stranded with no PAS

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Yes report it asap. Warranty will sort it. All free.   Probably an electric fault reset by a restart.