There are plastic shear "rivets" that allow the steering wheel shaft to collapse in the event of a collision, the rivets have sheared off.

Some popular fixes involve replacing the rivets with hardware store plastic screws or bonding the upper/lower shafts together.

The factory offered a kit to bond the shafts together but any that might be left will have the adhesive dried up by now.

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