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Power Steering Problem

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  • 13-04-2010 4:19pm
    #1
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,331 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi, I have a Saab 9-3 and the power steering is behaving strangely. It feels as I turn the wheel, while driving, as if it alternates between being light and heavy. I.e. as I start to turn the wheel it begins as light then stiffens hard (requiring mush more of a push) as I turn more and then as I turn more, it gets slightly lighter again.

    Any ideas what the problem could be? I've checked the reservoir and can see fluid as I look in so it wouldn't appear to be a leak.


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Loose/worn drive belt?


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,331 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Loose/worn drive belt?

    Funny - I was think it was as if there was a belt somewhere that was slipping without knowing that there is such a thing....


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    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    There's a belt that turns the power steering pump, people call it different things, auxiliary drive belt, fan belt, etc. It's not a big job to replace it, even simpler if it only needs retensioning.


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    kazul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 645 ✭✭✭kazul


    Did the 9-3s suffer from bulkhead cracking? It might not be the power steering per se, but a related component.
    Best get it checked in any case. I've been in a car that suffered steering failure going around a corner, not nice :eek:


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