For a year or so my steering has begun to shake and make a clicking sound, especially while going down a hill and applying the brakes. At first I thought it was my brakes, and I took the car to my mechanic. However, after an inspection of the entire vehicle, my car received a clean bill of health. Even the brakes were in great condition. The mechanic did witness my complaint while road testing the vehicle and informed me that it seems to be a design flaw in my steering column. He offered to order parts and replace the damaged component, but my car is not even three years old! The clicking can also be heard when the car is in park and you just turn the wheel from side to side. The clicking was barely noticeable at first, but after about six months it became progressively worse. Now it is loud enough and my wheel shakes so badly that my passengers ask me what is wrong with my car. Something is just not right.
2008 Nissan Sentra steering complaints
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2008 sentra, 23,000 miles with new tires and you are always fighting the steering. Around town it is extremely aggravating to continually feel back pressure and bouncing in response to your every move. Generally it wants to fight towards center but is confused by minor wheel movement. At highway speeds it is scary, unstable and unsafe. Slight wheel movement during straight line freeway driving is always met with over compensation back towards center. You can feel the rear end whip when this occurs. The dealer says they have had no complaints. Hopefully there will be some adjustment or resolution soon.
The steering of this car needs constant correction. It's like it cannot drive a straight 1 mile line. If the car drifts to the left, I turn briefly and slightly right but the car will then go right. I then turn slightly left but the car will continue to go left until I correct it again. It's like it cannot keep a straight line. It is dangerously sensitive to the shape of the road. I need to make corrections every few seconds. The severity of the problem depends on the road, mostly observable at highway speeds. I believe that 5-7 seconds of no correction would be enough to cross into another lane causing a crash.
Power steering failure. Drove car and then parked. Returned to car and upon starting noticed that the power steering failure light was on and had no power steering when driving. (system is electric power steering) drove car to dealer with no power steering. Following day, when dealer attempted to perform corrective service and diagnose problem the power steering is working. Therefore they have released the vehicle as not having any service problem. I have no confidence that the problem will not occur again and potentially cause an accident.
Steering is drifting.
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