What happens when your steering rack goes?
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What happens when your steering rack goes?
I have noticed lately that sometimes I feel a fine gritty feeling in the steering wheel when stopped or driving slowly, like under 10 mph. I can also hear a faint creaking noise that seems to come from behind the instrument cluster when I feel this gritty feeling in the steering wheel. This will happen with the engine on or off, and only when the steering wheel is turned with about 180 degrees of lock, both to the left and the right.
My car only has 15K, and I remember at the 10K serivce the rep commented that my PS was low, but I have no idea how low, because that PS fluid cap is almost impossible to get off by hand.
I did a search, but nobody really said what happens when it fails... Will I loose the ability to steer the car? I hate to have something so major replaced so early in the car's life!
My car only has 15K, and I remember at the 10K serivce the rep commented that my PS was low, but I have no idea how low, because that PS fluid cap is almost impossible to get off by hand.
I did a search, but nobody really said what happens when it fails... Will I loose the ability to steer the car? I hate to have something so major replaced so early in the car's life!
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When my wife's went
it was groaning really badly when you turned the wheel. Of course more noticeable at low speeds since you tend to use more action of the wheel at low speeds. Steering actually got somewhat tighter as well. Mind you we didn't have much to go on, since her's was at 500 miles! Took it in, they gave us a loaner, said the rack was "totally destroyed" took a few days for them to even locate one.
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