Author Topic: creaking steering  (Read 1068 times)

Offline nikkiy9

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creaking steering
« on: 28 April 2011, 18:42 »
whenever i steer at a very slow speed ie pulling away, my car makes one hell of a nasty creak, does this sound like strut tops??

the reason i'm asking is that it sounds really loud inside the car too

as you can tell, there's quite a few issues with the car that i'm going to sort in the summer

Offline Wayne

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Re: creaking steering
« Reply #1 on: 28 April 2011, 21:40 »
Could be a top mount bearing or the rack itself

Offline dan_apps

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Re: creaking steering
« Reply #2 on: 28 April 2011, 23:19 »
you need to jack the car up and have a play, check bushes etc too on the wishbones, arb and as wayne said check the steering rack, especially the bush at the bottom.

Offline les.tansey

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Re: creaking steering
« Reply #3 on: 29 April 2011, 04:25 »
It could be a different sound to the one mine makes but could it be the power steering fluid?

I only know that because some guy at sh1t fit said that my steering was creeking when steering at slow speeds (which it does), and he said that it could be the power steering fluid needing refilling, but we had already refilled it when I first got the car, so i'm left with the grinding steering problem  :wink:

Could we both have the same proble?

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