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99 Cadillac Steering Issues, Please HELP me save $$


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nesluopetan
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Aug 21, 2006, 2:08 PM

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I have a 99 ETC eldorado 74,000 miles. When you are driving on the freeway, it drives great. nice and straight and does not have lose steering.. When you start to turn around a corner, and the wheel goes more than half way into the turn, you feel a little POP and the wheel jerks back and makes the car shudder and swirve a little. Its very hard to explain.. When you turn the wheel it slowly gets tighter and tighter until the POP happens, then it makes the wheel go lose for a sec then back to normal. It makes it scary as hell to drive on freeway when that happens. This IDENTICAL thing happened on my ford truck, and it was the axle ujoints were shot and once they were fixed, the problem went away.. however I dont think the cadillacs have anything near that of the ford truck. I just paid the dealer 100.00 today to diagnose it for me, and they said it was the power steering pump which is 750.00 to fix.. I do not believe them one bit. the fluid is fine, and it does not whine or make any noises.. it feels like a actual joint is wore out and thats what is causing it.. just not sure which one or how to figure it out. please reply with any help you may have for me. I know its hard to explain so if you drop me a line I can try to elaborate more. Thanks.

Nathan
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1999 ETC Eldorado


DanD
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Aug 22, 2006, 7:16 AM

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Take it to another dealer or independent shop for a second opinion. Yea you’re going to be charged again for the diagnosis but it may be worth the piece of mind.
Things like this need to be seen and tested first hand to diagnose. Being it’s a Cadi the first quote doesn’t sound out of line if it is a pump. You’re driving a Cadi you shouldn’t expect Caviler repair bills; you want to play you got to pay. LOL
I don’t mean that the repair cost should be higher just because of the name on the hood; it’s just that a Cadi has a lot more creature features and that will cost you more to repair. Yes even the steering has extra features such as variable rate steering. That’s so when you’re in a parking lot you can turn the steering with one finger but out on the highway the power assist is reduced to give you more road feel. Is your steering problem in this system; I don’t know?
Even if the features that this car has are not affecting or causing the problem, the technicians have to work around them and most times are in the way of getting to the root cause of the problem.
I would stay off the freeways or better yet stop driving it other then to a repair facility. You know there is a steering issue; get it fixed regardless of the cost or park it. I know you didn’t say that you weren’t going to have it repaired; get the second opinions to confirm the cause and like the Cable Guy says “get her done”. LOL.
Dan.

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