Unable to recalibrate steering angle sensor

I used my AP200 to do a bunch of stuff to the steering on a car recently steering angle and whatever else there is in that menu didn't have any problems doing it everything worked and held I haven't tried it with tec stream But obviously I know it does it or I might have done it on a generation too a while back.

 

Using a paperclip between pin 4 and pin 13 of the OBD2 connector is used for retrieving the two digit blink codes. It is not for calibration of the steering angle sensor.
Blink (a/k/a Flash) Codes – How to. | PriusChat

 

A jumper between pin 4 (chassis ground) and pin 13 ("TC") is most often used to blink out the trouble codes, as described in the link above. There are also a few non-scantool procedures for doing some thing or other that involve jumpering TC (and usually also doing something else). The repair manual describes those little dances, usually under headings like "when not using the Techstream".

This C1445 code is probably worth looking up in the repair manual (which I don't have handy at the moment) for the details of what "vehicle driven with steering angle sensor not initialized" really means. There seems to be some goofy information floating about, including a YouTube video where somebody thinks he 'reset' the steering angle sensor by jumpering TC, and that might be where people are getting the idea that's even a thing.

As far as I know, there is no manual calibration procedure for a steering angle sensor. If you view its reading on a scan tool when the car's just been turned on, it shows some bogus reading like -1300°. The reading updates to realistic as soon as you've driven straight for a bit, which the ECU can tell by the zero yaw sensor reading and the wheel speeds being equal. (So, this relies in part on the yaw sensor and there is a manual calibration for that, but it doesn't sound like anyone has disturbed the yaw sensor.)

While I don't have easy access to the repair manual right now, this looks like probably the right C1445 details here.

The language there about "calibration cannot be obtained" does not suggest to me that there's any manual calibration step you've forgotten to do, and more that the car's normal automatic calibration hasn't worked out for some reason, such as the angle sensor not working right, or reporting a value that is off by more than the auto calibration process expects.

If there's been a recent change to the alignment or steering wheel centering, that repair manual excerpt does seem to suggest that relearning the yaw sensor zero point might help. There is a "when not using the Techstream" procedure for that, which involves jumpering a different ("TS") terminal.

Edit: Ummm ... also ... the image you attached shows a C1345 code, not C1445, and C1345 isn't about the steering angle at all. If that's the code you've got, it's about wanting to learn the linear solenoid offset.

 

I have the Xtools D8. I can read the codes and can set the steering angle.
I've never done it but have seen it as I was looking through the menus.
I will be in the Bithlo area Saturday until around noon if you want to give it a try..

 

What exactly are you trying to calibrate?

Where did you find information that connecting pin 4 and 13 will do this calibration? Can you post a link?

 

Yes I've done it with the Toyota software I can go turn on the CF19 toughbook and bring up the menu pretty quickly I do believe It has to do something with the steering angle sensor not the linear valve offset that's when you change the brakes or the brake actuator The thing on the firewall with all the brake lines linear valve offset The steering angle business that I'm talking about has to do with it if you change the power steering module in the car and something to do with something called an EMP or EMPB or something like that I'll have to look in the menu again but I brought up that menu and clicked next and it told me I had to be on level ground facing straight ahead so on and so forth and then push next and wait for something to flash or something along those lines and it did all that and that was that. Reason I was checking this is because I'm getting ready to change the electronic assist module in a mid 07 loaded car that I got for real cheap a few months ago and I wanted to see what I was going to have to do when I got it all back together.

 

So is the YouTube video one you made or one you found online? And are you saying your car is giving both codes, or just C1345, or just C1445? They're different codes about different things.

 

Once you have a C1451 (whatever you did to cause that to come up, maybe stumbled into an ECB Invalid Mode request), you can't do much else until you've dealt with that.

 

Good Lord you have to go through all that I just leave the remote 15 ft away from the car some kind of nonsense I guess the cars asleep while I'm doing the brakes and doesn't try to push pull or do anything. Just like doing the brakes on the manual Corolla.