No Power Steering. Read Before You Jump Start
Joined: 10-10-2020
Posts: 1
From: Washington
Today I had a customer come in with no power steering. Here is the solution.
be careful when jump starting your HHR. Hook your positive cable to the positive post under the hood negative to bolt on strut tower. there is a black post on the other side of fuse box. this is not a negative post.
That post supplies power to the electric power steering, and the fuses go poof when they get jumped from another car.
be careful when jump starting your HHR. Hook your positive cable to the positive post under the hood negative to bolt on strut tower. there is a black post on the other side of fuse box. this is not a negative post.
That post supplies power to the electric power steering, and the fuses go poof when they get jumped from another car.
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Joined: 09-20-2020
Posts: 17
From: Western Wisconsin
Thanks for posting this! As I am new to this 2010 HHR and usually drive older vehicles, I would have used that negative post for sure! I'll be sure if I have to jump her that I use the strut bolt for the negative lead. You probably saved me from another heart attack.
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From: Fredericksburg,VA
Your 2011 is supposed to have a large decal on the fuse box cover. And your Owner Manual (see the link in my sig) has a whole section about it.
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