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, ...

When I bought this car last August, it wasn’t running and it needed a bit of a refurbishing as it’d been sitting for years. It had decade-old tires, the alignment was horrifying, and the brakes were ...

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 ...

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 ...