Yesterday I had a visit from a Seville driver who complained about the “comic” steering and snares and cracks in it. He had already been missed by the dealer a new steering gear, a new servo and new belts at the price of loose 1800 Euros… When I looked more closely at the joints of the Intermediate Shaft (connection of steering column and steering gear with 2 joints and a telescopic connection in between), it was noticeable that they were really dust-dry. – some smart guy probably cleaned the parts and sprayed them with WD40 or something like that. NO – this is definitely not the right way! So I removed the part, cleaned it and really brutally smeared it with machine grease (intentionally no special grease due to creeping properties) and see – no cracking and snoring, steering is not as bony anymore, but really full and soft and the cracking when braking is also gone. It should be 150. Maybe you should also tell the workshop that they need a full nut for the expansion… So dear Seville driver – at least every 50,000 km the joints are provided with real grease! All 120,000 km I would expand the part to make a reasonable cleaning and to grease the telescope. If possible, you have to replace it because of the game – but that’s what the TÜV says. but, the steering gear has game – is definitely very, very rare and only at running speeds beyond the 250 tkm so – or it was a pure parking vehicle… So far I have only replaced a steering gear (too much work…), but only because the internal sensor was defective and you can not exchange it individually.