# Loose Jeep Steering

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** cherokee, jeep\
**Created:** [August 24, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045 "2010-08-24T00:50:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ajlaituri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@ajlaituri](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ajlaituri)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045/1 "2010-08-24T00:50:33Z")

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My wife’s 2003 Jeep (about 90,000 miles) has about 20-25 degrees free wheel in the steering wheel where nothing happens when you start to make a turn. She says she’s used to it. It scares the hell out of me.  
  
  
  
 Is this a dangerous situation?

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**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045/2 "2010-08-24T00:52:47Z")

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Yes. We are, after all, talking about the steering system, which is sort of important from a safety standpoint.

I’d have it towed to a mechanic. Driving it is too dangerous.

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**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045/3 "2010-08-24T00:58:00Z")

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Yes…just reading about it scares the heck out of me. I agree with mcparadise it’s too dangerous to drive.

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**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/loose-jeep-steering/54045/4 "2010-08-24T01:38:52Z")

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If a third opinion is needed to convince you that the situation is already dangerous and will most certainly deteriorate please accept my vote to get that looked at immediately.