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Hi all
I would really appreciate some advise with my car
probs at the mo, I am a women owner and not really up with allot of mechanical
lingo so any help
in easy to understand answers would be
great,
ok here's the problem, the power steering was
leaking so I took the car to a mechanic and he told me it looked to be the 0
rings so I am
in the process of ordering those, I asked him if it
was a major prob and he said no so I just presumed I could drive it carefully
till they turned up, well
I kinda knew I shouldn't have but did, when I was
at my dads his drive way was a tight squeeze so I turned sharply heard a hissing
from the power steering and then
saw fluid and allot of it all over the drive
dripping from underneath quite badly, so I sort freaked a bit and hoped line and
had a look at the archives so see what the story was with driving it like that
and I read it could be a fire hazard which bummed me out but I needed to get the
car home which was 45 mins away so I wiped as much fluid off the underneath of
the car and drove carefully home, the car also seemed hotter than normal on the
temp gage also so I rested it half way home just to be on the safe side, then
after resting it I hope in and find my brakes weren't working, allot air sound
and no great brakes anymore, there was a bit brake but I had to press really
hard to make the car stop so I figured best drive slowly home and luckily no
major hills to go down, I read some advice on here about replacing all the power
steering hoses and would like to know what they are all called and which ones I
should replace, the car has only done 18500 original miles and I think they are
all original hoses etc,
I need to know what's happened to my brakes and is
it because of the power steering leak or not, and where should the temp gage on
a say 45 min drive be when the car is turned off, as it went higher after I
stopped driving, I wont be driving it now till it fixed, learnt my lesson, its
just hard here as I live in nz and we cannot just get parts from the local shop,
most of the stuff we have get from the states.
advice please
Tracy
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