[rkvons]

So my daughter was driving around last winter in her 2005 Aveo four door with an automatic transmission (Don't know the model) and hit a snow bank. This kinda mangled up the front passenger side down low. She saw that the car was running and basically continued on. But there are power steering lines that run down there and what happened was, a metal line was deflected enough to put a rubber power steering hose in contact with the serpentine belt. Well I don't know how long she drove around with the car in this condition, but on Christmas night, after leaving my house to go home, she called and said she had no power steering. She was stuck at a gas station quick mart. I jumped in my car and went there and looked under the hood. I immediately saw that the power steering hose was cut and all the fluid was gone. She was with her husband, and I told them that they were going to have to drive it home that way. Okay, the next day I fixed it. But I noticed a couple of weird things. I added fluid into the reservoir and started it. The power steering was making a terrible noise that fluctuated as it sucked the fluid down in the reservoir. It was empty again. Okay, I added more and repeated until it did not take any more. But it seemed like the fluid got all foamy and wanted to overflow. I said it would probably get better as time went on. Fast forward to now. She reported to me that it had been leaking all along and was really getting bad. So I had her bring it over. I noticed that the leak was not in the area of the repair, but rather, was at the reservior. So I cleaned up the engine compartment and topped off the power steering fluid. Then I started it. I noticed that the fluid seems to flow through the reserviour at a rate that is too high. It forms a whirlpool in there which introduces air into the system and causes the power steering pump to make a bunch of noise. When you give it gas, the swirling slows. But when idling, it is flowing like crazy. Eventually the fluid seems to foam up and come out of the resorvior and she runs out again. My question is: is the power steering fluid supposed to be flowing through the resorvior like that? Also, if it is not supposed to be flowing thorugh like that, what would be causing it? Thanks