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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tie rods connect either end of the steering rack to the steering knuckles on which the front wheels pivot when the steering wheel is turned. The tie rod has two sections threaded together, so their ...