I own a 62 plate Fiesta that I love, it's a Panther Black Zetec and has been perfect up until recently.
I picked up a friend early on friday morning and left my car outside of my house until saturday morning when I came to drive it again.
It appeared that the steering wheel was not locked like it usually was and was hanging rather loosely, when I turned her on and went to drive, the steering wheel was indeed loose and it didn't have the artificial "heavy handling" that I had grown to love, when steering the wheel it also makes a very slight creaking noise that I can only describe as a rubber ball being dragged across a surface, it is intermittant.
I thought that if I turned off the engine and the steering wheel locked then when I start the engine again it would be back to normal, I turned it off, the steering wheel locked and felt heavy again, but when I turned the engine back on the wheel was once again, very very easy to push, I can get around half a steer without meeting any resistance.
This is somewhat alarming as the steering is very light and feels really really dangerous at the minute, I am still under warranty so I am going to get it looked at tomorrow but I just wondered if anyone has experienced anything similar? Knows if it is a relatively easy fix, or maybe even knows what is wrong with it?
Thanks very much!!!
