Steering Trouble, Causes and its Remedies

Steering Troubleshooting:

The purpose of the steering system is to give the driver directional control of the vehicle.

When a driver feels the steering control over his/her vehicle is not like it should be, it is up to you to determine if there is a problem, and if so, figure out what is causing it. It is always easier to fix something if you really understand the trouble.  Some ways you could do this are:

Observation & point out the trouble like "what, when, where, and how"

Make sure you can feel or see the problem.

Walk around the vehicle looking for anything that may be an obvious cause of the problem.

Once you have a good understanding of what the trouble is, choose the remedial chart that best matches the symptoms described to you.  Because there are different ways to say the same thing, we have provided our definitions of the 10 most common trouble in this section.  Use these to determine which section of the troubleshooting would be helpful to begin diagnosing the steering system.

10 most common definitions of troubles:

1. Hard steering or Lock steering.

2. Steering wheel kick/bump.

3. Not enough turns lock to lock.

4. Oversteer, binding, darting (means driver suddenly gets more turning then he wants).

5. Directional pull.

6. Loose steering or Road wander.

7. Non recovery (wheels don’t returns to straight ahead).

8. Shimmy (shake the steering wheel).

9. Noise (clicking or clunking sound is heard).

10. Leakage (Continual adding fluid in reservoir).


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