Year: 2001
Make: Acura
Model: TL
Engine Size: 3.2L
Mileage: 110k
I just got back from a week long vacation and was getting ready to go to work. I started my car and didn't notice anything unusual until I started to back up out of the garage. The steering was kind tight. I didn't think much of it and thought since it was sitting for a while, that it would just go away after some steering fuild got into the lines. After going a little ways in my neighborhood, I stopped the car because it was not going away the steering was just as tight as when I back up out of my garage. So I popped the hood - that's when I saw power steering fluid all over the place, and the level was at the "lower level" line. I looked on the ground and there was a puddle of power steering fluid. The explosion looked to be pretty recent, like when I started the car.
So I turned around to switch my car out with my wife's. I didn't see too much evidence of any puddles on my garage floor.
Anybody got any ideas as to what this might be? And how I can fix it? I'm not a mechanic by any means, but I'm good with direction and with my hands.