Last year I replaced my accumulator sphere on the DS. The main driver for this was that I was getting short ‘cycle’ times. (i.e. the hydraulic pump would kick in very regularly to maintain system pressure, which puts stress on the system). At the time, I did get an improvement in cycle time. Secondarily I was hoping to cure a problem where the power steering would get very heavy while parking. My theory was that there was not enough reserve pressure, which meant that the power assist was not working as well as it could.
However, the good news is […]
