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Last month I took possesion of my new 2001 Z06. I've been having a blast with my new black rocket, but it has developed a nasty problem that I have recently encountered. She's got 650 miles on her now so I've been enjoying really getting on it; however in doing so I have seemingly lost power steering at times. Now, I know that the car compesates at high speeds by limiting steering input, but I have experienced a total loss I believe as the wheel is incredibly hard to turn even after returning to a dead stop. I attempted several different means to get things back to normal, but the only way that seems to work is really getting back into it again. That is winding it out in 1st and 2nd right up to redline. Upon doing that, the steering seems to return to normal. My real fear is that this is going to happen at the wrong time, as in when I'm entering a corner. I've had it happen twice at freeway speeds and it wasn't fun, luckily they were gentle exit ramps, not hairpins on the road course!
I'm going to be taking it back to the dealer for some "doctoring" but I was wondering if anyone has ever seen anything like this? I'm guessing/hoping that it's just something with the power steering pump, and not some TC gremlin. Any help would be welcome...
I'm going to be taking it back to the dealer for some "doctoring" but I was wondering if anyone has ever seen anything like this? I'm guessing/hoping that it's just something with the power steering pump, and not some TC gremlin. Any help would be welcome...