2008 Toyota Highlander Steering Problems

“I have a 2008 Toyota Highlander. While driving a side city street, on a slight curve, the steering wheel locked and could not be turned. As a result, my daughter hit a tree. My daughter was going approximately 25mph and the impact was in the center of the vehicle. The air bags did not deploy.”

“Every time you turn the steering wheel either left or right but it gets worst in the right it will make a thud sound and you can feel it in the steering wheel , I noticed that 4 years ago and it's goes noticed on and off but nowadays it is more frequent and a friend of mine had similar complaint coz we had both the same car car but mine is 2 years older and assembled in japan ... Probably the steering column that they used.”

“Steering went out all of asudden without notice,almost causing me to crash,,my speed was legal speed in texas 80mph,,,also a the ABS light came on and felt like brakes were going to be applied,,turned engine off, restarted car and ABS brake light went off”

“Driving at a slower speed and during a turn - my power steering shut off- the power steering indicator appeared on my dash but then disappeared. As a result I lost access to power steering. This happened several times and has happened at approximately 20 MPH. I checked the recall notifications and identified I had 3 separate recalls related to this vehicle how the power steering concern was not one of them. …”

“Drove to store, when vehicle in park, went to drive home. When I went to adjust telescoping steering wheel via little lever, the whole steering wheel came off the column into my hands, tried putting it back in place, got it on column, the anti skid light light came on while driving initiating the braking system,anti-skid, cannot drive above 5 MPH because it activates anti skid, makes a lot of noise, slows the vehicle back down approx.75200 miles on vehicle,”