How to Handle Power Steering Failure

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Casey Atkinson from Willie Driving School here in Logan, Utah. I'm going to put you through a situation. Imagine you're driving on the road and you try to turn and all the sudden your power steering goes out. The power steering is what helps you turn the steering wheel easily to turn. But when that goes out it's going to be really difficult to turn that wheel. So if you're turning it's going to get pretty scary, make sure you hold tight, turn as hard as you can. Now if your steering goes out like that, you don't want to keep driving it if it's not safe. So in this situation you want to pull over as soon as you can, where it's safe, don't just swerve over, pull over to a parking lot or somewhere safe on the side of the road and then stop. Then call for help, start the car up see if it'll fix it, whatever it takes. But try not to drive if you're power steering goes out, it's maybe difficult to drive, especially making turns while driving slow, it takes a lot of effort to turn that steering wheel. When you're driving fast it's not quite as bad. Those are some tips in case you're power steering does goes out. A way to avoid your power steering going out is to take care of your car. Fill up the power steering reservoir, don't fill it too much, it'll just screw up your power steering."