[fastfredracing]

Who ever was working on our Cayenne before us was a class act. Everything I have touched has missing fasteners, clips, mis routed wiring, cracked air boxes. etc. Most of the problems this vehicle had was from shoddy maintenance.
As Im walking out the door this am, I get the frantic call from wifey poo. Cayene on the tow truck on the way, has zero steering . The steering wheel just freewheels .
She was pulling into the parking garage downtown when it happened, lucky , slow speed, no crash. Other than a bunch of po'd drivers honking at her for 15 minutes and her looking silly blocking 2 lanes of traffic in morning rush hour, she is fine .
However, if I know her, 5 minutes before this , she was probably blasting down route 28 at 80 mph.
Tow truck drops it off, I pull the lower steering cover, and the pinch bolt for the steering column is just laying there. It fell out! someone did not tighten it ! That is about the worst possible thing a mechanic could forget, short of the bolt/clip for the brake pedal. She had zero steering, it just free wheeled in either direction .
The clock spring is toast also, I am sure, as I now have air bag codes .