I think the powersteering pump is what killed your car. Just guessing here, mind you. But let me ask you a quesiton - when you cranked the steering wheel over, did you go all the way to the stop and keep pressure on? If you did, that's almost certainly what killed your engine.
I don't understand all the details, but when you hold a powersteering pump against its stops, it is really hard on the pump. The pump is furiously pumping as hard as it can against solid iron (the steering stops). This causes the pump to offer vastly increased resistance - demanding more power from the engine to keep the pump turning. But of course, all the energy being produced has to go somewhere, and it can't go into turning the wheels, because they're already up against iron. So all that energy gets turned into heat - and in this case, resistence sufficient to kill the engine.
Now, to my way of thinking, the sensors should have told the computer what was going on, and the car should have increased its idle. So maybe something IS wrong. Or perhaps the way it happened to occur in this instance was just too quick for the computer to catch up, so it gave up and let the engine die, rather than try a clumsy recovery.
If you are in the habit of cranking the wheel to the stops and holding it there, I'd suggest you work on not doing that. It's okay to go to the stop - just back off an inch or two after. You'll hear the powersteering pump's sound change when you've backed off enough.
That's just my layman's guess. As for the trans, I have no earthly idea, other than to venture a guess that maybe it was "stuck" in some electronic limbo, and got "rebooted" when you restarted the car.
If it were my car, I'd have 'em look into it the next time I brought it to the dealer for service. ODBII is pretty amazing in the level of detail it provides. Your onboard diagnostics may have some information regarding exactly what happened.
I don't understand all the details, but when you hold a powersteering pump against its stops, it is really hard on the pump. The pump is furiously pumping as hard as it can against solid iron (the steering stops). This causes the pump to offer vastly increased resistance - demanding more power from the engine to keep the pump turning. But of course, all the energy being produced has to go somewhere, and it can't go into turning the wheels, because they're already up against iron. So all that energy gets turned into heat - and in this case, resistence sufficient to kill the engine.
Now, to my way of thinking, the sensors should have told the computer what was going on, and the car should have increased its idle. So maybe something IS wrong. Or perhaps the way it happened to occur in this instance was just too quick for the computer to catch up, so it gave up and let the engine die, rather than try a clumsy recovery.
If you are in the habit of cranking the wheel to the stops and holding it there, I'd suggest you work on not doing that. It's okay to go to the stop - just back off an inch or two after. You'll hear the powersteering pump's sound change when you've backed off enough.
That's just my layman's guess. As for the trans, I have no earthly idea, other than to venture a guess that maybe it was "stuck" in some electronic limbo, and got "rebooted" when you restarted the car.
If it were my car, I'd have 'em look into it the next time I brought it to the dealer for service. ODBII is pretty amazing in the level of detail it provides. Your onboard diagnostics may have some information regarding exactly what happened.
