Has anybody seen this? This freaks me out man. The media is in a frenzy around here. It's in the news and several consumer shows.

“I was doing maybe about 70 , and all of a sudden my truck started shimmying a little bit and shaking. My first reaction was to grab the steering wheel and hold on.

“I was bewildered, to say the least… I had no advance warning ... that my tie rod was about to separate.”


‘You wake up and your truck’s in the ditch’
When a tie rod end in Sean Stillmack’s truck separated, he lost control of the truck and crashed. “You wake up and your truck’s in the ditch. You’re waiting for the air bag to go off... You’re strapped in and you’re looking at the sky instead of looking straight ahead. Yeah, it’s a very scary moment.”

“Initially, I thought that the information on tie rods was Ford-bashing,” he says. But then McNally heard stories from a number of diagnostic technicians enrolled in his training course.

“As we got into it more and more, we had fellows saying ‘Oh, they’re two-to-one for failure rate, and they’re occurring as low as 30,000 miles. And in most cases, it’s rust-related.’”

http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/f...ods/index.html


Has anybody had issues with this? I've done some digging and Moog has designed a significant upgrade to address this premature tie rod end failure and unlike the stock part, it's fully greaseable.


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Then Im surprised I havent heard of this before???

 

I know about the CBC. If you get on the wrong side of there reporters look out. Usually the end result is the reporters are getting escorted out by police or a camera gets smashed.