Steering Freezes at higher speed

[Terry Z]

My wife drives our 4.6. She says that periodically at 60+ miles per hour she has to "tug" on the steering wheel to free it in order to turn right (lane change type move). This results in an over steer. The service managers at two separate dealers said that they have never seen this problem and can't fix it unless they can duplicate it.

Any experience with this or can someone point me to a thread discussing this problem?

Thanks in advance

Terry

 

[homeofstone]

The steering is electric and variable assisted. As speed increases the input effort will increase. If a sensor is going bad then it could cause your problem.

 

[alsvt]

Mine did the same thing about 2 weeks ago i was on the highway going into a right turn and there was a little rough road (New York) and it seemed as if the power steering was not working and the steering had frozen up definitely scared me a little. Hasn't done it again though, put the steering wheel telescopic and up and down has frozen up a few times at start up.

 

[Terry Z]

This is just a followup to those who may have a similar problem brewing. The steering got progressively worse. The service department experienced the problem and called the tech center. They replaced the gear box and the problem has been solved.