Nitpick: It’s ‘thy back,’ not ‘thine back,’ since ‘back’ begins with a consonant.
I sit corrected. Thanks.
Visions of Basil Fawlty attempting to get the roast duck back to his restaurant for gourmet night, if I may be so bold.
This just reinforces my opinion that all minivans should be banned from major highways and limited to a speed not greater than 50km/hour (30mph) unless being pushed off a cliff (at which point the faster the better).
Seriously though, how does a back wheel locking up cause any sort of difficulty with the power steering? And how can a person end up doing 360’s considering this is a front drive vehicle (according to Wikipedia) and the back wheels are essentially just along for the ride? If the front wheel(s) were jammed up, yeah, I could see it happening as that would address both issues.
This is my third Nissa Quest. I’ll let the irrational vitriol regarding my choice of a ride pass, however. To each their own. 
As to how a wheel lock in the back can affect a vehicle, especially at speed? C’mon. Think about this. Front wheel drive or not, if one wheel stops rotating that creates drag at that part of the vehicle and it will want to turn in that direction. Doesn’t matter if the wheel is front left or back left. In this case, the back left wheel locked and my van did indeed rotate counterclockwise.
The road was extremely slushy. It’d been snowing/icing all night and when I got going that afternoon, it was 2:45 and the snow had turned to rain just above freezing. The road surface was quite conducive to slipping and sliding.
I’ve seen the aftermath of quite a lot of m.v.a.'s If this had happened for some reason and the road were completely dry and smooth, my vehicle would have rotated to the left and it would have flipped side over side, rolling until it stopped. Or until it was struck by another vehicle.
This is because there isn’t a vehicle on the road meant to move down the highway at 55mph SIDEWAYS.
It didn’t cause a problem with the power steering, there is / was no problem with the power steering.
The problem was ice and snow built up inside the rear wheel. This cause the rear wheel to be out of balance causing a vibration. In addition, it caused the rear wheel to jam, causing it to slide, causing the van to spin.
I’d like one of those little cars. Dad had once, loved the suspension, it just made Mum sick 