We were driving in Friday rush hour traffic on the interstate, and the tie rod broke on our 2007 Chrysler Aspen. It has about 54,000 miles on it. Thanks to some instinctive, veteran driver reactions, my husband was able to get the car from the inside lane to the shoulder. The left wheel was detac…

It is terrifying. It is also something that does happen, though it is an unusual thing to have happen at 54,000 miles. Most tie rod issues are discovered long before they break, and 54K is a fairly short lifetime. Unfortunately its not possible to say much more without a whole lot of info on the …

A tie rod end is a ball in a socket to allow some movement since a wheel is moving up and down as well as side to side. In time they simply wear and usually “loose” steering is the result. Since the wear is gradual many drivers simply don’t notice until the steering is so sloppy it is hard to cont…

I had a tie-rod failure on my GMC S-15…Luckily it happened when I was pulling out of my driveway. Having it go on the Interstate I’m sure was NOT fun.

Tie rod or tie rod end? There’s a difference although the end result is the same. I’m assuming tie rod end because the odds of a tie rod breaking is about as close to zero as it can get. Tie rod end failure (or even the remote tie rod failure) is preventable. This is why regular inspection of the c…

Did the part fail from wear, or did something break?? Also, which end failed, inner or outer, or did it just break in the middle? Tie-rod failure is very rare, almost unheard of. Since this is a critical safety related part, they are usually somewhat over-designed… An exception might be some sort…

For a tie rod to break on a 5 year old car with 54k miles, I’d say that yes, it was defective. That’s assuming that there wasn’t an external cause, such as hitting an object in the road that started the process to breaking it. It would also be helpful to know exactly what broke. Did the ball brea…

This is so unusual in a vehicle this age that I’ll have to agree with Keith on this. Even thoughit’s possible it would normally be caught in an annual safety inspection before it broke, than unless there was some damage to it the failure would almost have to have a root cause in the manufacture or …

I was recently driving on a local side street at no more than 15 miles/hour. the weather was dry, there were no pot holes in the road. I suddenly heard asnap and my car veered to the right and hit a parked car. My 2012 MDX was towed into Acura where I was informed that I had a broken tie rod. Th…

@ellen1015 I suggest you start your own thread. This one is from April 2012

Tie Rod failure

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Rod-Knox April 17, 2012, 4:23pm 4

The specifics of the break might give some indication of the cause. Did the ball drop out of the socket. If so was the ball and socket worn badly? And was it the inner or outer tie rod end? It would seem unlikely but did the tie rod itself break?

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Tie Rod failure

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