steering column can lock while driving?
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Racer
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steering column can lock while driving?
Is this correct? I thought this only happens when you go to start your car and you cant turn the steering wheel? this actually happened to me once while driving pretty hard into an off-ramp and the steering tightened up, had to use both hands to keep the car from going into the ditch. will a colum lock bypass fix this or is there another problem. 
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I don't think you experienced column lock. The faster you go, the tighter the steering gets. That is designed into the car and explained in the literature. Sounds like you over-drove the corner. If you had a true lock you wouldn't have made the turn.
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Originally Posted by highpressuremax
Is this correct? I thought this only happens when you go to start your car and you cant turn the steering wheel? this actually happened to me once while driving pretty hard into an off-ramp and the steering tightened up, had to use both hands to keep the car from going into the ditch. will a colum lock bypass fix this or is there another problem.
Maybe there is an issue with the power steering unit on his car.
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Probably not the column lock, but more like a power steering thing. Not saying that the column lock can't happen at speed (see another post that was recently made). The CLB will prevent the column from locking.
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Originally Posted by jrose7004
Sounds like you had an issue with your power steering pump! 
I was doing some WOT runs and threw the accessory drive belt. It was a hand full to steer. 
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