Vauxhall Corsa C - 2001. The wife complained she was having problems with not enough lock on the steering.
It was minus 5 frost that morning and she thought the steering might be frozen up! I said the low temperature shouldn?t make any difference but checked the steering and found only one and a half turns lock-to-lock.
She borrowed my Focus to the shops and I had a look at the Corsa. I jacked up the front, took the front wheels off and had a look underneath to see if anything was jamming the steering ? it all looked OK. I tried it a few more times and still only got limited movement.
I left it until the afternoon when the temperature had risen to about plus 7 in the sun and the steering had returned to normal with about 3 turns lock-to lock. Put the wheels back on, gave it a test drive and it drove normally so I thought that was the end of it. Same thing happened this morning with another hard frost and it returned to normal later when it warmed up. It has not happened on cold winter days in previous years.
Does anyone have ideas about the likely cause of this?
Cheers ? John W