Yes,you're correct,loss of steering is not a good feeling. Last summer I was out early for a trip to the Newark autojumble,the sky was blue and the birds were singing.
The day before I had fitted an uprated steering joint and was pleased with the improvement in "feel",blatting down the Ashbourne road at nearly the legal limit,(of course officer.)
Things were good,very good,sounds of the sixties on the radio jousting for my affection with the singing of the exhaust,was in seventh heaven.
Then decided to get really comfy and pull my seat forward a bit,right hand on the seat release,left hand on the steering wheel,pull myself forward when all hell let loose....the wheel came up two inches and detatched itself from the roadwheels...some idiot had tightened the pinch bolt but not in the groove but just on the shaft.....well we went this way we went that way with me in panic trying to spin the wheel each way to try to correct the steering and finally came to rest on the wrong side of the road on the brow of a hill...
Still not out of trouble yet,what if some early morning idiot like myself was heading in the opposite direction? He would come over the brow of the hill and come face to face with me vainly trying to reverse the car back and onto the correct side of the road by alternately applying the handbrake,jumping out to get the roadwheels pointing in the right direction,jumping back in and reversing a little over and over again....
NOT a good feeling.....
The moral of this story?
I don't know,but don't loose your steering...
John