Hey my steering feels heavy, and doesn`t pick speed up as it did a month ago..?
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Transmission and steering fluid might need replacement rather than topping up.
get a new one
sounds like you need a service to get the car running better and get someone to check out your steering rack. Cars do deteriorate as time goes on but your car sounds to new to have that many problems. Have it checked out.
Take it to a garage and get it checked out . Could be a number of things such as brakes binding, tracking, power steering on the way out . Just don't take it to a Vauxhall garage - the labour costs are likely to be astronomical (no pun intended!)
Have you driven away someone else's car by mistake? Or has someone slipped through the timespacecontinium and altered the settings on your car.
Or did you wife/girlfriend take it out one evening and drive over a sleeping policeman at high speed and bottom out the car and knackered the steering coloum?
The power steering has an electric pump rather than it is driven off of the engine directly. Check the fuses for start. If this doesn't work get hold of the pump and get a friend to move the steering wheel. If it doesn't run it's busted!
Pick-up - plugs possibly, injectors possibly you could try some injector cleaner in the petrol - Halford do it.
They never go as well once you get used to them!
RoyS.
Front end alignmenmt(if far enough off, - will affect "feeling" of steering. Also low front tires, (may affect acceleration somewhat too).A slipping drive belt to power steering pump- you should hear "squeal thouth" (if you have P.S.) - could slow down flow through steering box, - (making steering more work), - The belt could be broke (assume you checked that)-then you have
"powerless steering", - which is a whole lot harder than in car with out it in first place! Some smaller cars don't even use p.s.-- it gives you beter feeling of road, (and costs less) but is hard to steer when moving very slowly!
And of course maybe you have less power being developed in engine in first place (the affecting "accelerate like it used to" part). So check to see that everything is opearing properly on the engine itself!
Also having all your tires at lower pressure than they are supposed to be will slow down acceleration too. As well as ruining or wearing the tires improperly, requiring replacement more often,-( over inflating them will also wear tires more rapidly, or even blow them out if way high pressure used!)
If you have let the fuel tank get very low then dirt can be sucked into the system so that can make the car run rough.A service would be the answer. If you had the car from a garage then you should go back to them, if it was a private sale then there is not much you can do
steering heavy proberbly pump or lack of fluid in system
lack of power eather needs service or a sencer gone down
electric power steering pump on these, sounds as though its on its way out!
1 /Have you checked the belt tension?
2/ If the engine idle speed is too low, similiar problems. Perhaps tune up or service required.
3/ If power is down, then perhaps servicing required, or maybe a problem with the ECU.
The power steering pump is electric on your car, if the output from your alternator is low the pump will have trouble working, the low output will also cause driveability problems as all the electrics on your car must receive sufficently high voltage to work correctly. Any garage will be able to easily and quickly test this for you, or do it your self - start the car and turn headlights and heater blower on, get a voltmeter and put one probe on the battery negative and one on the battery posotive, the reading should be between 13 and 14.7 volts if the alternator is working correctly. It doesnt matter which probe goes on which terminal you will just get a negative reading if you do it the wrong way.
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