My husband and I recently had an issue with the low-pressure line to the power steering pump on our car. We unfortunately discovered this while retuning my niece to her mother's after a sleep over. The thirteen-year-old nervously asked us if the car was going to blow up as smoke bellowed out from underneath the car's hood.
My hubby took a look and found that the line to the pump was spewing liquid in a near arterial spray.
We rushed to a nearby automotive store and filled it with the power steering fluid to aid it in functioning (so the steering wheel wouldn't lock up), but it only poured out more.
Doh!
We called around to every automotive shop we could before being told that the part in particular was a dealership only item.
We discovered this little inconvenient fact on a weekend, when the auto dealership itself was closed
To make a long story short, my husband managed to jimmy-rig the thing so it was drivable, and 2 weeks after said incident we finally obtained the part we needed so it could be changed out.
We truly love our car and it has been very good to us, but if we had known that it would be that hard to locate automotive replacement parts for it, maybe we would have re-considered the purchase.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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