2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid Steering Problems

“For several months, at startup, power steering had a delay for a few seconds, then performed normally. Yesterday the power steering went out and stayed out. About 10 seconds into the failure, received an alert tone and a service steering soon message. Without power steering this car is much harder to steer than any car with power steering failure I have owned. I was able to drive it, but gingerly and with great effort. …”

“After starting (push button start) and driving out of my garage, the power steering failed and a service power steering soon warning was displayed. After I stopped and started again, the power steering was again enabled. I took the car to the dealer but no repairs were performed as they could not duplicate the problem. Error code u3000:49 was stored.”

“The steering power box apparently failed on sept. 18 when I was going to work. The check power steering light came on and then the steering wheel locked up when I tried to back out of my parking place and then when I tried to ease back into it, I had it towed to mccafferty Ford in langhorne, pa where it was diagnosed as the steering power box failure. I did a google search and found the 2014 cmax hybrids have been recalled for this issue. …”

“Light came on saying service power steering. Almost impossible to steer it. Was told by the Ford dealer it is a $2,000.00 fix. Research showed me that other models have had the same problem and were listed as a recall but there isn't enough documentation yet on the c-max's to warrant including them. At 55,000 miles that seems very early to have this kind of problem. We love our c-max but this is a definite concern when your on social security 2,000 is a big expense for a fox at 50 somr thousand miles. Respectfully submitted. [ any help would be appreciated. …”

“During a two-leg road trip from orange county, ca to park city, ut via las vegas, on the first leg just outside las vegas I got a warning message steering assist fault:service required . Car did not lose steering assist however after the next key cycle (off/on) a steering assist failed message appeared and vehicle lost steering assist. The vehicle was driven carefully to the nearest Ford dealer . They told me the fault was caused by excessive tire pressures (really?) and they had set the tire pressures and reset the fault code (c102d - excessive friction in steering rack). …”