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In reply to the discussion: When driving your hands should be at 8 and 4 (not 10 and 2) [View all]hollysmom
(5,946 posts)if you lose your power steering the wheel can be jerked from your hands. So I semi compromise, except my wheel has a big center console thing that forces my hands out of place. Maybe they should design a car so you can drive in control, but not have your thumbs broken.
Sorry, I have been having a big time car design is down the toiled for that last few expensive months - first I had the key lock problem which turned out that my car computer module did not tell the engine and transmission that my key was in the lock (no longer physically connected), so I could turn it all I wanted and it would not kick in. lucky it was semi in recall, so that was done for free, then my transmission would disengage, turned out that the computer module would not tell the transmission that I stepped on the gas, so it thought I was adrift. - so the replaced the foot pedal, engine acceleration and transmission computer modules and rebuilt my gas pedal, and made me pay, then when it still didn't work, they replaced the battery which was strong enough to turn on the car but apparently not strong enough to run all the computer modules and then it worked. is nothing mechanical anymore?
Anyway, you can see why I am afraid of losing power steering when that computer module goes out.