Thread: power steering and the door locks

2005 L322 M62
I have a problem with the power steering and the door locks
These problems are getting worse, a month ago they only played up occasionally but now it’s all the time
I thought it might be the battery, so I have replaced the battery, on start up the voltage is 14.3 immediately, for a week everything worked fine, yesterday, back to worse than normal
Yesterday I was driving with no power steering,
today I started it and the power steering worked straight away
First the door locks
When I first bought this vehicle, I locked the doors and then couldn’t open them, as luck had it my son managed to open it
I took the drivers door apart and found a broken metal part, I made a new part out of steel and put it back together
When I first tried to lock it, windows started to fly up and down, the sunroof flue open and closed and things were happening faster than I could see.
After locking it and unlocking it a few times, everything settled down and things worked, as what I think is ok.
If the windows are down, locking the doors doesn’t close the windows?????
I then got a remote, and that worked fine now for about three years
This morning, I can only open the two front doors and the tail gate
I cannot open the two rear doors and the petrol cap
I had to clime in to open the rear doors but still no petrol cap
The power steering
The power steering has worked fine and only sometimes not worked
If I doesn’t work, I just turn the engine off, remove the key and start the engine again and this used to fix it, now it doesn’t
Having finished writing this, I went out and started the car and every thing is working fine, door locks, power steering, what can I say
Tomorrow is another day

thanks guys
it comes and goes, i was two days without power steering, then it fixed its self