The steering gear experienced a short causing the power steering to fail. the entire motor had to be replaced.
The rear differential locked while driving at 45mph on a straight, four lane road. it made a loud thump and felt as if the brakes were slammed on. the car pull hard left and the rear tires were smoking. managed to get the car back to the right and stopped after hitting the curb. fortunately no other vehicles were involved. the elsd is on backorder and will not be available for 90 days.
My steering rack and pump went at only 26,000 miles. if i was driving this car on the road at the time it went i would have had an awful accident. you could not steer the vehicle at all. it cost me 2275 for the part and 6 hours labor @750.00. i think with only 26000miles this should have not happend.
Driving at 10pm south on highway going 65mph on left shoulder 20min in and 10 min to get to my destination (home) on middlel lane n an 18 wheeler tried to merge to left (gusssing he did not see car) so to avoid being swiped by semi said ed steering will to left off to exit median close to cement baracade semi passed got back on road 5 minutes in side left & right also front and back air bags deployed lost control off vehicle and spinned out of freeway & steering wheel locked unable to start vehicle car facing south now and off highway realized the only thing hit was a front grill where cadillac sign next to it grill was cracked couple of scuffs but no other body damages and front airbags dint deploy so questioning if possible undetected malfunctions progressive insurance agent lakiesha woodson no police report because i dint get hit or hit anything or anybody have a repair invoice - stating an 18k estimate & considered totaled due to airbags and tow service of $700 that neither delearship or insurance want to be responsible for delearship states that since insurance involved cannot have car towed to gm/cadillac service center and insurance states i'm at fault because i'm the one that swerved from semi but have stated i avoided to be hit or pushed off road and it was way after that is when airbags just deployed for nothing or due to it being all electric is just too sensitive and late in reacting either way that's what caused me loosing control of vehicle was not expecting the deployment... had i otherwise hit or been hit i would asume the front airbags would have deployed as well and there would be more body damage other than just airbags and a fallen off front fender just feel like this should be investigated because even if it does not make sense it is what happened just no one wants to accept the responsibility deductible $500
Turned car on after parking at a lot. reversed to exit and then suddenly, a warning light came on stating "power steering. drive carefully". power steering went off entirely. it was extremely hard to move the steering wheel. could barely get car back into parking spot. turned engine off twice but the steering did not correct self. after engine was off for 10minutes waiting for tow truck, the power steering came back on.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 cadillac cts. while driving at various speeds, the steering wheel seized without warning. the failure recurred numerous times. the vehicle was taken to the dealer on five different occasions where it was not diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. the failure mileage was approximately 1,000.