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If the car is being driven with the "city" setting selected and suddenly the steering goes heavy and a steering wheel symbol appears in the instrument cluster then the electric power steering has failed. If you stop and the ignition is switched off and then back on again the steering should recover until the next failure which may be minutes, hours or days apart. The best solution is to deselect "city" driving and drive on normal setting which may never fail but if it does then the answer is to get a new steering column with integrated power steering fitted but it is costly £700 to £800.
Although they are driven by completely different mechanisms, both earthquakes and tornadoes are natural disasters that strike suddenly and are difficult if not impossible to predict. with a tornado you usually get a few minutes warning. With an earthquake there is no warning.
Is this "suddenly" like after your daughter takes a shower for 65 minutes?
change the power steering fluid
My student driver had been holding the steering wheel to it's maximum left and right position frequently over 30 minutes while practicing parallel parking in a small lot. The power steering system clearly did not like this. After cool down, it works normally.
About 48 minutes. This is the driving time at that speed and does not include slowing, accelerating or stopping during the trip.
You get tired.
Your sewer line isn't properly vented.
Watch out for the airbag! From the manual (which you should buy if you are going to do this job safely), you need to disconnect the battery and wait for a few minutes before attempting to work on the steering wheel. THEN you can remove the airbag, disconnect the horn and cruise control, remove the steering nut, use a puller to take off the steering wheel, reset the clockspring etc... Not terribly difficult if you are comfortable working with the airbag, but also not something to do without the PICTURES in the manual. Your safety is not worth $12 spent on Amazon for the old manual.
2597 seconds, or about 43 minutes.
behind the steering wheel. pull off neg. battery cable, wait 2 minutes, remove airbag, remove steering wheel, and there it sits
About 9 hours 37 minutes. This is the driving time at that speed and does not include slowing, accelerating or stopping during the trip.