So I was driving home today, and noticed that my steering wheel started to sort of moving to the left and right on its own a little bit, and then began to get worse the farther I went on.
I thought I'd had a flat tire or something, so I pull over, check all 4 tires, and all appears to be fine..
I get back in, drive a little more, and the pulling seems to just get worse and worse--then as I try to turn the wheel I hear a very nasty cracking/scraping type of sound, as if I'm driving on the rim of the wheel or something.
At this point I check my power steering fluid and find that it's right at the bottom line of where it's acceptable, so that wasn't an issue.
I'm only about 2 miles away from home here, and figured I could maybe force it home if I drive slow enough, but as soon as I start driving the scraping sound is *really* bad after moving forward just a foot or so, and it continued for about 3-4 seconds after I immediately hit the brakes.
I figured that's it then, I'm going to call a tow truck. While on the phone then I notice my car rolling forward a bit, in spite of it being in park. I hit the brake then, pull up the handbrake and I'm stopped..I release it again just to see what would happen, and sure enough the car is rolling in park.
Am I going to need a new axle here (I'm a car n00b), or is there some possible other explanation here?
I thought I'd had a flat tire or something, so I pull over, check all 4 tires, and all appears to be fine..
I get back in, drive a little more, and the pulling seems to just get worse and worse--then as I try to turn the wheel I hear a very nasty cracking/scraping type of sound, as if I'm driving on the rim of the wheel or something.
At this point I check my power steering fluid and find that it's right at the bottom line of where it's acceptable, so that wasn't an issue.
I'm only about 2 miles away from home here, and figured I could maybe force it home if I drive slow enough, but as soon as I start driving the scraping sound is *really* bad after moving forward just a foot or so, and it continued for about 3-4 seconds after I immediately hit the brakes.
I figured that's it then, I'm going to call a tow truck. While on the phone then I notice my car rolling forward a bit, in spite of it being in park. I hit the brake then, pull up the handbrake and I'm stopped..I release it again just to see what would happen, and sure enough the car is rolling in park.
Am I going to need a new axle here (I'm a car n00b), or is there some possible other explanation here?
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