So the subject says it all, I was driving out of a parking garage and snapp....BRAKE....screech..... no more steering 
Looked under the car and a tie rod just snapped. It was odd because it didn't look to be in bad condition.
Anyway, I have replaced a tie rod on a nissan sentra before, and it was pretty easy, and it looks like this one will be easy as well.
I have a 98' american RR se, and the tie rod that snapped was the drivers side. Does anyone know the part I need, the auto parts store kept asking if I needed inner or outter or the whole assembly etc......
I couldnt find any repair/part details anywhere, so if someone could direct me to that or let me know the steps in a reply that would be great.
I remember the last time I did the repair I had to count how many times I turned the old part to get it off and screw the new part the same amount of times.
I am wondering about the steering wheel and alignment. Since it snapped, the steering wheel is able to turn all the way left/right and before I realized I had no steering I turned it back and fourth and have no idea where the original position was......is there a way to make sure that gets somewhat aligned when I install the new tie rod?
Thanks!
Looked under the car and a tie rod just snapped. It was odd because it didn't look to be in bad condition.
Anyway, I have replaced a tie rod on a nissan sentra before, and it was pretty easy, and it looks like this one will be easy as well.
I have a 98' american RR se, and the tie rod that snapped was the drivers side. Does anyone know the part I need, the auto parts store kept asking if I needed inner or outter or the whole assembly etc......
I couldnt find any repair/part details anywhere, so if someone could direct me to that or let me know the steps in a reply that would be great.
I remember the last time I did the repair I had to count how many times I turned the old part to get it off and screw the new part the same amount of times.
I am wondering about the steering wheel and alignment. Since it snapped, the steering wheel is able to turn all the way left/right and before I realized I had no steering I turned it back and fourth and have no idea where the original position was......is there a way to make sure that gets somewhat aligned when I install the new tie rod?
Thanks!