After the car show tonight I was cruising on the highway w/ cruise control when suddenly I heard a snap then all my indicator lights on the dash panel came on (ABS, VSA, Power Steering, etc) and it started making a tapping noise. I thought something happened to my tire or something and I pulled over right away. I get out, check the car, look in the engine bay and everything looks fine. I turn on the car and it runs fine but all those lights are still on and my A/F and boost gauges aren't on either. Strange... I'm real close to an exit so I drive slowly to it and pull off at the gas station. I notice, very clearly that my power steering isn't working at all.
Eventually I saw fluid slowly leaking and saw that a harness got wrapped up onto the axle and spun around a **** load till it snapped. Okay, that's where the noise was coming from, but the fluid? Okay so the harness wrapped so tight that it got itself on the other side of the axle seal. Upon removing the mangled harness the fluid came out like a stream. The seal is shot, the harness is destroyed. The question is - HOW THE !#%( did this happen? I just got home (5am) after having it towed.
UPDATE: So I took a look at it today while comparing it to a friends car it looked like my harness was fine and there were none missing. I eventually found out where it came from. It was a harness going through the firewall for my wideband.
The wideband was powered through the fusebox for the ABS fuse which popped when the wires got snapped so that's why all those lights came on. So all I need is new tranny fluid and an axle seal. Definitely not as bad as I thought. New wiring harness for the wideband aside it still turned out to be a ~$250 mistake.
I still have no idea why the harness got caught in the axle. I know it was zip tied to another harness and never had much slack anyway.