My steering needs bleeding. My plan was to open the bottle start the engine, and top it up as it drains? do I also need to be using steering? I am concerned this will spray the fluid out.

Any tips? Am I totally wrong, I am going off 4 year old memory of sitting in a car while someone quickly bled the system out of sight!

Cheers
Chris

start the engine
open the cap and fill up to max
turn from lock to lock 3 or 4 times and check the fluid level (top up if nessasary)
now rev to about 2000rpm; again steer a few times from lock to lock, let it idle and check the level again

that's all

brillant, I knew it was simple, but not exactly what the simple method was

you can probably even skip the turning from lock to lock at 2000rpm but that's just a method to get any air out of the rack a bit quicker; handy if you mount new hoses etc. i prefer it though; as most times it saves getting the fluid out again for topping it up after a couple of miles

Nice one