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Stiff steering issue (97 850 (190k)) 850

posted by  Shaughnessy on  Tue May 18 19:56 CST 2021
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Thanks for that tip. I will look into it too.

BUT I'm about 90% sure I know what happened.

As I was driving around (well after it happened, and about 2 hours of having the car sit), I got a CEL light. Ran a code, and it was an O2 sensor.

Which if any of you know of my postings, I replaced both of them earlier in the year.

This led me down the rabbit hole of thinking "hey, you know it felt like the steering wheel was caught on something and just broke whatever it was caught on!"

(like if you drag an extension cord and it gets snagged on something, you pull it and feel the tension and then you can tell when it's released).

So when i got home tonight, I looked at the engine compartment and it appears that there is a wire wrapped around the steering column (HOW it got there I have no idea...but it explains the issues almost perfectly).
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