Peugeot Re: Help needed for strange problem!

From: Brian J White (brian@bjwhite.net)
Date: Tue 26 Feb 2002 - 17:04:22 EST

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    Sounds like a loose power steering belt, low power steering fluid, a faulty
    power steering pump, or you're running the system with no power steering
    fluid at all.

    At 14:01 2002-02-26 -0800, Paul Adams wrote:
    >Help!
    >
    >My 405 has developed a strange problem. When I steer
    >left there is a loud screeching noise. The noise is
    >loudest when the car is moving slowly (and the engine
    >is cold) but still exists when the car is moving at
    >speed (and is completly warmed up).
    >
    >The noise never occurs when steering straight or
    >right, only when steering left. On occasions the noise
    >even exists when the car is stationary (with the
    >wheels pointing to the left).
    >
    >Baffled yet?! The noise is also loudest from inside
    >the car and seems to be affected by the speed of the
    >booster fan! With the fans set to the off position the
    >screeching is very loud and if I turn up the fan to
    >the '1' bar position, or higher, the noise still
    >exists but changes in tone.
    >
    >Has anyone else come across a similar problem to this?
    >Could the cause be located at the booster fan or is it
    >more likely to be a component of the steering (I've
    >had the belts checked and all is apparently ok). Do
    >the booster fans still spin when they are set to the
    >lowest position (the slider can be set to 0, 1, 2 or 3
    >bars)?

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