After having one of those shops strip the drain plug on my oil pan, I do all of our cars. My wife still brings her van into the dealer.
Last time it was in the dealer said the squealing steering was a bad steering pump. They want $870 to replace it.
I looked on line (Scotty Kilmer is a good one) and watched all sorts of videos. You have to watch a few to see who knows their stuff and who seems like an idiot.
Anyway - from my diagnosis and the numerous videos, it sounded like I just needed to replace two o-rings. $8 a pop for each o-ring off the net (what a rip, but the stores don’t carry them.) Took about 20 minutes to replace, but then I also drained and replaced power steering fluid, and installed a new fluid reservoir (it has a filter in it). So maybe 1.5 hours of messing around with it.
No squeals anymore. And the sad part is - I’m guessing that the dealer wouldn’t have even installed new o-rings! (Or - maybe they knew it was the o-rings, and replace those and charge me for a new pump.)
I did order another pump just in case - now I need to find that again so I can return it.
My used 2003 Honda Accord. Squealing noise when steering not long after buying the car. I found there was a recall due to the O-rings were too small which allowed air in creating bubbles. The dealer had to know but still did not fix before selling to unsuspecting customer. Me.
I too looked at websites and youtube videos. Easiest fix to replace. The cost was about .50 cents when I ordered online.