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They all do it. It's they way the power steering pumps are designed. My neon 2001,my journey 2009 were doing it and now my journey 2010 is doing it. They only do it when it's cold. The best thing is to keep your fluids at a good level and changing your fluids when they get a couple of years old. They say we dont have to, but all fluids get thicker when cold specialy when they get older. Keeping it fairly new will make it easier on the pump but the noise is just them whining it's too cold.

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It feels like you would rather have you fingers and toes cut off because they are just too painful. But the worst is at the end of january and early february when it is - 40 with a lot of windchill making it feel like -52. I had 3 dodge car in my life and every winter when it is cold the make the same sound. the colder it gets the louder the noise is but it always fades away after a few seconds. I think it's nothing to worry about but keeping all of your fluids at a good level and fairly new will make it easier on your car. Fluids usualy get thiner when hot and thicker when cold, specialy when they get old. it's just there little way to let you know they dont feel like being driving. Just like us every morning when it's cold you just dont want to get out of bed.

I also agree with P-R-N-D-N-R-P process it works all the time. It is just the transmition not being in gear properly. The computer wont let you start unless you are in park or neutral and unfortunately it seem to happens to quite a few with the 6 speed trans.

I had the same problem at first. The starter would just go CLICK! and nothing would start. I tried so much that it eventualy drained my battery. I thought it was my batterie that did not have enough power left, so i ended up buying a new one. Everything was fine until it did it again. I was there trying everthing, boosting it with another car, waiting couple of minutes before trying again until i tried moving the shifter. it moved down in gears without pressing the brake so i moved all the way to drive and back to park and at that point i heard a small click as if the transmision had re-engared into park. The car started without problem like nothing had happen. The next time it happenned i did the same thing bring it into gears and back up to park and it started right away. It must be the way we bring the the shifter back when we put it on park. I have since made sure to bring the shifter far the corner of the park to engage the transmision properly and it has not done it since. Good luck with yours and i understand your frustration.

Hey Guys, It actually is the power sterring pump. My 2001 Neon did the same and several cars from different companies does it too it is just the pump working too hard. When the temperature is low under 5 deg the fluid thikens and makes it hard for the pump. Best thing is to flush the whole lines and add new fluid right before the winter. While your replacing the fluid remove the reservoir and clean it because there is a filter inside that cloggs after a while. It is just the way the pump is made it sucks but so does winter so it is just another part of the game.

Your right sorry about that for some reason i had in my mind that if your engine run longuer you'll burn more gas but i guess when they says 8.2L/km it's all accounted for. I got the 9.1 just like that because if 100km/h is around 8.2 the 120km/h would be around 9.1 maybe not even. Thanks