Steering wheel shuddering - Help!

[seanpaul]

Hi All,

I have an 01 GTB. I have owned it for about 5months now and it has always had a shudder in the steering wheel. It only shudders when turning the steering wheel on the spot or when maneuvering in tight spots ie, like parallel parking at very low speed. Its shudders so bad that I can't turn the steering wheel unless I move the car forward a little.

This shudder does not happen when driving at speed. I spoke to my mechanic about it and he said that it is a commom problem with these legacys. He said a possible fix could be to drain and flush the ps fluid and refill with new stuff.

I have searched on this forum and on the net but can't find any answers or anyone else with this problem. Can anyone shed some light on my problem?

Thanks!

[aim]

Check your powersteering pump's belt It could be slipping.

[Guest boostin]

Try a flush and refill, but I doubt it will fix it.

Do you need to be moving to turn lock to lock?? You can't do it on the spot??

[seanpaul]

 aim']

Check your powersteering pump's belt It could be slipping.

Cool, will do that when I get home.

[quote name='boostin said:

Do you need to be moving to turn lock to lock?? You can't do it on the spot??

Thats right, the car needs to move to turn the steering wheel. If I inch forward, I can turn the wheel a little bit and then it wont move any further. I then have to move forward another few inches to turn the wheel some more. I cannot turn the steering wheel lock to lock on the spot.

[Hailz]

Check the fluid levels and the belt, can you hear the belt slipping at all? If both belt and fluid levels are ok then I'd say your power steer pump is buggered.

[Guest boostin]

Yeah something to do with the pump for sure. Either slipping belt, low fluid or just the pump is shagged.

[Juzz976]

I have same thing in my 96 BG5 Wagon. Done it since 60,000 k's now at 100,000k's and I think its got a teeny tiny bit worse over the 40,000k's.

Not a belt issue as I checked that first and when I did cam belt/oil seals/waterpump so guessing its the pump.

[dvs-b4]

iv got a b4 and my pump is loud as when you dont rev it to turn the wheels i had subaru look at it when i go my boost cut fixed and they said yea its a commen fault with them but mine nuffing to worry bout yet