I've owned my 2001 solara since i purchased it new in april 2001. i haven't had any real problems with it (i've had all of the normal maintenance, wear & tear stuff done), until about 2 years ago. my wife & i were out of town and were turning around at a strip mall shopping center when the steering locked up. it had just rained extremely heavily and there was a lot of surface water on the road. i just assumed that perhaps the power steering drive belt got wet and was slipping (although i didn't hear any squealing). after that the steering seemed ok. then about a year ago, i started noticing the problem more regularly, mostly while "un-parking" the car from a parallel parking spot. i can back up ok, but when i steer the car to begin driving, the steering locks up & i have to stop, back up again, & "steer out of it." anyone else have this kind of steering problem? i have 125,000 miles on the car. i know that toyota has done a recent recall on cracked steering boxes on certain models. i had a '76 celica one time that developed a crack in the manual transmission casting at about 80 or 90,000 miles. *tr
Car steering drifts left, 8 trips to the dealer and it cannot be fixed (caster is not adjustable). web searches reveal that this has been a pervasive problem for years with the manufacturer offering no resolution. *la