Hi guys,
so I will do an "ask and answer yourself" again :). Just joking... I know the community is most likely very small still so the total experience is still very limited... time to bring few new facts.
So I confirm hereby that I was able to read steering wheel angle from an European Ford Focus Mk2, both on a pre-facelift (2004-2007) and an after facelift (2007- around 2010) vehicles. The vehicle needs to start moving and after few meters the steering angle starts to be provided in steps/increments of 1.5 degrees. So I am very happy to be able to find this out...
The fact that the angle remains zero before the vehicle starts moving confused me a bit because for instance on a European Ford Mondeo Mk3 (2001-2007) I am able to read a raw steering angle sensor CAN message just with an ignition turned ON without the engine running. If someone is interested in the Mondeo there are few notes here:
http://www.electronicsworkshop.eu/FordMondeoCANhacking
On the Mondeo I can confirm that ID 0x80 is correct for SAS and also the 0x201 for gas pedal (I did not test more that that). The first two bytes of 0x80 are probably high/low parts of the final value and they seemed to change a bit finer than those 1.5 degrees on Focus...
Thats it for now.
Regards,
Jan