Yeah, it's one of those things that makes ya feel real dumb when you find out what you did to yourself. haha- I never thought twice about this long wire I had wrapped around my steering wheel column, it had somehow found it's way inside the column so it made it very difficult to even adjust the steering wheel. Now even my POWER steering works easier!! Shesh I feel like the guy that cut off his nose to spite his face.
I figure the issue with the brakes was in my head. I had a serious accident last July because of my brakes going out in my 2005 Chevy Colorado and it ended up missing a curve. I can remember the truck bouncing back on the rode after hitting a hillside and having my glasses thrown off so I was then blinded, and the truck flipped maybe 5 or 6 times before it stopped rolling. I believe when I first tested my car with the motor turned off in neutral that my steering was jammed just enough by that wire and then my panic lead to a flash back of my last and only wreck of my life. I know that sounds like a pretty tall story, but it's really what happen.
I'm certain in my previous tests of the Cobalt that I had the key in the ON position because my entire dashboard was lit up showing my speed and everything except ,my RPM was 0. Now that I got that dang wire relocated the steering works much better all the way around, I feel like an idiot. But, as they say, it's better to live and learn by trial and error than to never learn at all.
