My 2008 G35 Journey has the premium Package which has the automatic adjusting tilt steering wheel upon start up. When I start the car the steering wheel tilts down to my preset postion. Once I put my hands on the steering wheel with a slight amount of pressure the steering has a bit of play and moves down a bit again, I would say about 2/16" of an inch. so at first I didn't think anything of it but it does it everytime I adjust the steering wheel to a different tilt height and will move down again another bit down with a light natural holding of the wheel.

Does anyone else have this problem? I have an appointment for next Wednesday to take it in for this problem.

Any ideas or know what it could be?

Thanks.

 

it could be ur car trying to hurt you since you're a bimmerguy, jk

jokes aside, i have no clue what it could be because i have the manual steering wheel column adjuster

 

My x with premium does the same thing after the wheel moves whenm Ig et into the car. It doesn't do this movement any other time so I think its normal.

 

My 07 Sport did the same thing and it drove me crazy. It felt cheap. I took it to the dealer and after some prodding, they replaced my entire steering column! Fixed and great now.

 

mine does the same thing...i not to worried about it. should i be?

 

I had the same thing. I took it in and after close inspection by the Infiniti service dept. Nissan/Infiniti instructed them to replace the entire steering column, which they did. I still occasionally notice a little bit of movement although perhaps not as much as in the original column.
I have come to the conclusion that it is first adjusting to a position you/we have saved which is not quite where the column needs to be in order to be in a ‘locked’ position, so it moves a little until it finds the nearest locking position.
Try this - the next time the steering column 'drops' a little put the car in park and reset your seating position memory. See if it happens again after trying this.
I would say get it checked out in case it’s something different than mine but most likely it’s the same thing. It is a fairly common issue and there have been a few threads on the subject already.

Good luck…hope it’s nothing serious

 

Very common - I like the idea of reprogramming the memory where it "drops" though, may try that.