Power Steering Fluid problems of the 2005 Audi S4

One problem related to power steering fluid has been reported for the 2005 Audi S4. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Power Steering Fluid problem

Failure Date: 09/13/2017

I was on my way to substitute teach at an elementary school in santa cruz, CA and so was in the middle of a lot of early traffic at a left turn signal when I heard a very strange rumble. I thought it was another car as my car had just been in for a 95,000 mile service a few weeks earlier. However, part way through the turn I was almost unable to steer the car. I had to fight the car to keep it from hitting a bicyclist and to get it off to the side of the road where it then stopped steering and died. At that point it was blocking two cars in a driveway, but I could not steer it at all. This was on the street directly in front of the del Mar elementary school. I called farmers insurance and monterey peninsula Audi where it was towed. I was told the steering column had cracked and the fluid had leaked out. I was also told there was no way to be able to diagnose this in routine services.




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