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Odd steering behaviour

  • 23-08-2006 7:28am
    #1
    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭


    The herald is proving to be a fun ride - possessed by demons!
    :D

    Last night the steering got all vague and floaty, and I was able to move the steering wheel downwards on the column by a few inches, and back up! I take it this is not normal?

    Scared the life out of me. I'm going to have brekkie perusing the manual, but has anyone any ideas?

    She got 4 new tyres yesterday, so 'm gonna check the wheel nuts and pressures while I'm at it.


Comments

  • #2
    Blue850
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,568 ✭✭✭Blue850


    My brother's Wolseley Hornet had a similar problem, a plastic bushing had collapsed in the steering column, it was near the light switch under the plastic surround behind the wheel. Maybe the Herald has something similar?


  • #3
    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    I think it does, actually.

    I'll have a poke around.


  • #4
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    is it a collapsable sterring assembly?

    No, really, soimetimes there is a sacraficial part of the steering system that may be giving up on you.

    I'd address it promptly, you don't want a comedy situation to occur:

    *driving along in car lost*
    Overdriver S.O.: "You're going the wrong way"
    Overdriver: "Well if you're so clever you drive"
    *passes S.O. steering wheel*
    :eek:


  • #5
    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    I'm looking in the manual and I don't see a sacrificial part. There are some bushings, which I could inspect.


  • #6
    cormac_byrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭cormac_byrne


    I've got a '68 Mk III Spitfire (shares many bits with the Herald)

    I see from advertising material that one of the advertised safety features is it's 'collapsable steering wheel'. I've wondered at the point of this, as I'd still be impaled on the steering column, so possibley it is collapsable too, though have never seen any reference to this in any manual etc...


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