Depending on who you are, how quickly your car can make it from a standstill to a quarter-mile straight ahead might be all that really matters in this world. But staying in line has never really been ...

Dear Tom and Ray: How can you tell if your tie rods are loose and need to be replaced? I got a lifetime alignment, and when I went back to get the car realigned, the mechanic said I needed to replace ...

A car making noise when turning often points to issues in the steering, suspension, or brakes, with common culprits being whining from low power steering fluid, clunking from bad tie rods/ball joints, ...

Karl is a former Senior Editor at CarBuzz and first joined the company as a freelancer in 2019. After graduating as a copywriter and studying journalism, his early work life included stints in ...

Ray: Unfortunately, a second opinion is your only real option here, Basir. Tom: There's no way to tell from how the car rides or handles that the tie rods are bad, because they wear out so slowly and ...

Nissan is recalling more than 236,000 Sentra sedans because the vehicles' front suspension tie rods may bend and break, causing drivers to lose steering control. The automaker is recalling 236,238 of ...

Slotted above the subcompact Versa, the Sentra is under recall stateside over an extremely unsettling issue. As it happens, a simple pothole impact may deform the tie rods. Nissan became aware of this ...

The plan was fairly simple. Go out to the desert, bend a tie rod intentionally, and shoot an article for "What Now?" on how to get a Jeep with a bent tie rod off the trail. The problem is that that's ...

Rack-and-pinion steering is somewhat different from the steering boxes we looked at in last month's issue. Perhaps the best way to describe it is that it combines the steering box and tie rod, or ...