How do you know when your Tie Rod is mess up? IM going to get my
cv boot replace next week cuz just saw the boot and its rip apart
all the grease is gone.
My question about the Tie rod cuz some times when i turn right in to parking lot i hear a knock sound is that from the tie rod or is it
because the grease from the cv boot gone?

Sorry i hope i explain that well.

Thanks

 

how long have you been driving the car like this? it might be the joint itself but when you get a new boot put on you can check all of that...

 

I got the car 06/2002 and never really look before but the sound
it self probably about a month.

 

Hey there, is that the trunk lettering I see on your passanger side dash? If yes, wouldn't that thing just launch at your passanger's face when the airbag goes off? Ouch!

Tifosi

 

That knocking sound you hear when making very sharp turns in the parking lot is almost certainly coming from your CV joint and not the tie rod. If the tie rod was loose enough to cause that clunk it would wander dangerously on the highway. Tie rods are easy to test, though. Jack up the car and yank back and forth on the tie rod where it attaches to the wheel spindle. There should be no play.

For what it's worth, I sometimes get a mild clunk from my passenger side CV joint when parking. The car drives fine, though, and there's no need to change it now.

Make sure in the future, though, to inspect your CV boots regularly (couple times a year). Whenever you wash the car, look in the wheel well for grease splattering also. A CV joint that has a torn boot and is loosing grease is a CV joint that will fail in no time.

 

Dude, this is sad.

Go have new CV boots.
I think your important rod has been a little bit damaged in the process of "CV boot ripping away for a long time."

And don't turn like you have no afterlife in corners.

#1 reason CV boots crack.