Q: Eps having problems
Steering feels loose, can feel the steering wheel wanting to jump around, sometimes when i start the car, the power steering flashes and i have to use all my force to turn the wheel or i can turn the car off and back on and it corrects itself
My car has 139000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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