It started with the power steering leaking from somewhere by the front passenger tire. It went everywhere, from the front of the car to the back tire.
Car wouldn’t turn left or right.
Didn’t drive it hardly. Something started squeaking after that. Loud squeaking. At first it would stop, then it didn’t stop, then the car shut off.
I had driven the car about 25 miles with squeak. I turned it off once in between these 25 miles sometime. Turned it back on. It did fine. Squeaked the whole time. Turned it off again. Turned it back on. Squeak but drove. Got it about 100 yards after I started it and it just shut off. Didn’t even know that it had shut off until I went to pull out into traffic and the car wasn’t moving. The lights worked. The doors barely locked. The headlights stayed on and wouldn’t go off even after the car died. It was hard to get into N position after it died. It would not restart. I had to have it towed.
It sat for a few days.
I tried to start it today and the engine seems like it wants to start, but now it grinds.
It was not grinding at any point whatsoever before it died. The engine had an oil leak. I added 1 quart power steering fluid and 1.5 quarts oil 24 hours after the power steering went out.
The car was due in 3 days to go have the oil leak and back brakes fixed, but then the power steering and squeaking started, and it shut off all of a sudden.
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Friday, January 26th, 2024 AT 1:21 PM