No one thinks much about a truck’s power steering system until something goes wrong. Then it becomes mighty important. If the steering doesn’t work, the truck can’t move. • Hard steering — Can be ...

If you're suffering from excessive steering wheel vibration, wandering, or difficulty turning the steering wheel, these may be the early warning signs of a faulty steering box. Unlike a blowout, which ...

Everyone seems to be counting their pennies these days, which translates into less money available for automotive repairs. In the case of our '76 Corvette, it was the car's power-steering unit that ...

A car’s power steering system is a mechanism that assists drivers in steering their vehicles. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of driving an old vehicle with manual steering, you know how much effort ...

Ford Motor Company issued two new recalls Wednesday covering nearly 445,000 vehicles after receiving numerous complaint and incident reports, including at least four accidents related to loss of power ...

Seeing as many vehicles switched from hydraulic power steering to electric power steering by the mid-2000s, fewer and fewer cars have power-steering fluid anymore. (Only the hydraulic systems use ...

If you've ever driven an older vehicle without power steering or a contemporary car with a power steering malfunction, you probably understand just how important these systems are. They drastically ...

There is a war of hyperbolic statements among enthusiasts, waged both in the comment sections of websites and in the texts of articles. Not one of worldly significance or anything that’d affect our ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...