Interesting Phenomenon Noted

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Interesting Phenomenon Noted

At my school there's a lot of idiots here that don't look when they pull out of a parking space, so sometimes you have to do a quick maneuver to avoid clipping them.

So yesterday, I got out of my parking space and I was driving out and I had about 25% of the accelerator pressed. Suddenly a car pulled out really fast and I had to turn the steering a good half way and pull it back to the opposite side. While I did this, the steering 'locked' up in the middle of the opposing turn and it felt as if the power steering had cut off right for that half second. Needless to say, tht DID scare the crap out of me. So I went to an open area and I kept doing what I did, but the same thing didn't happen. But then I pressed the accelerator quite hard and then did the same turning motion, and the steering did jam up like it did before.

What could be the reasoning for that? I'm guessing that the CV joints can't turn the wheel and keep it in motion at the same time fast enough. And therefore it's probably an FWD exclusive issue. Unless someone with an RWD setup can test it out for me...

Looking forward to your replies.

Gari.pk User 10848 asked on 01 Nov 2010 12:11:02 pm

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Zubair - on 01 Nov 2010 12:11:12 pm

which car is it ?same happened to my friends xli.the problem was that due to unknown reasons,the power steering belt was reduced to half its width.i mean half of it was torn all the way.so with half width,it used to slip nd just for a moment,to made the steering too hard but then again it get on well.ur case might b sumthing similar.cuz when u give accelerator the pulleys start to rotate faster,which might b making the belt to slip....?