Steering Is Tight problems of the 2009 Toyota Corolla

I drive a 2009 Toyota Corolla s. Starting today I refueled my car and when I started the car again the steering was extremely hard to move. I tried restarting it three times before the steering was back to the way it normally turns. Later that day I started my car again and heard a buzzing from the steering column and the power steering went away again. I restarted the car and power steering was back. Again that day I started my car and proceeded to back up when the power steering went and the wheel locked up turning left as I was backing up. I almost hit a wall in a parking garage and had to restart my car until power steering was regained. I made it back to my office and will drive my car straight to the selling dealership after work.

I bought my 2009 Toyota Corolla in June. After having it for a week I questioned about the reason as to why the steering was so hard to handle in the rain and when the wind blew. I was told this was because of the type of tires I had on my car. This problem has become worse. Yesterday I was driving and without out me steering the car it went on it's on to the right. This car takes two hands tightly holding onto steering wheel to drive. It is the scariest car I have ever driven.

Eps steering is very hard to keep car in lane when traveling at highway speed. The best description I can give is that you have to make constant micro adjustments to keep it going straight. I do not feel a pull like a alignment issue but rather the car steering seems to want to drift left or right all the time. I have a 2007 rav4 with eps and it does not have the same issues.

The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. While driving at any speed the steering wheel was very hard to control and keep the vehicle driving forward. She took the vehicle to the dealer. The dealer checked the alignment and stated that nothing was wrong with the vehicle and that's the way it was designed. She also stated that recently the vehicle began to vibrate excessively. The failure mileage was 14 and the current mileage was 10,000.

I was driving on to the off ramp and off the freeway decelerating from about 65 miles per hour. I felt as if a strong gust of wind pushed my car to one side at the same time this occurred the steering wheel jerked to the left pulling my hand with it. At this point I had no idea what had happened I tried to recorrect the wheel and instead it went wildly back to the right. This happened another time within a couple of seconds. The next thing I know the car spun around 180 degrees facing oncoming traffic of cars coming off the freeway at which point the car drifted, hit the curb and rolled into the embankment. The car was totaled. My passengers leg was also injured and we are lucky to be alive. Until all this news came out about Toyota I had thought that what had caused my accident was strong winds because honestly that is what it felt like when I was driving behind the wheel and on top of that I was traumatized so I never thought about the accident having anything to do with the cars mechanical failure. Looking back I don't even believe the wind was even blowing that day that was the first time I drove that car on the freeway after purchasing the car. My sister also drove it once on the freeway and she also mentioned that the steering wheel felt hard to handle. Shed mentioned that driving from san jose to san francisco she had to have a firm grip with two hands on the steering wheel because it felt strange. The accident was in 2008 and it was a 2009 Corolla. Because of the accident we weren't even able to have a chance to determine whether or not the steering wheel actually had a defect.