This one has me lost and i dont really know where to go with this one. Driving down a local road last week i wanted to turn left at the junction but something was preventing the steering wheel turning to the left, i put a bit of pressure on the steering wheel and it released and turned but as it did i got a snapping plastic sound from inside the steering column cowling it did this on several turns left and right with the noise the same then it did it no more. i used the car for a further 6 trips with no problem but on the 7th trip it did it again. i have removed the cowling and cannot see anything broken or loose and the problem is that to identify the problem you have to be in the car when it does it would anyone have any pointers as to what this could be, i have never experienced this kind of problem before cant take the car to a garage because you never know when this will recur. As i said i cannot see anything loose or broken and this is now doing my head in. We have driven the car with the cowling off but came up with nothing.