Unpopular opinion, but i think steering is really important while driving.
NTA your steering wheel your rules
You are so brave to speak truth to power.
I used to design steering columns, and it’s really not as important as you think. In the event of an issue, the car will eventually come to a stop regardless of steering performance.
Big, if true.
The recall covers certain Sentra compact cars from the 2020 through 2022 model years.
Tie rods breaking. Yikes.
I had a tie rod break on my old beloved Civic. I was stopped though, had just finished refueling. Turned the wheel to move away from the pump and… KACHUNK!
Tried moving it into a parking space and no dice. It would kiiiiiinda steer. Got out, looked at the passenger-side front tire, turned to the left. checked out the driver’s-side tire… turned to the right.
“I don’t think it’s usually supposed to be like that,” I tell my friend.
How very Nissan of them. For a company that’s been building cars for about half a century, you’d think they’d have figured out the simple shit by now.
Cars don’t look, work etc. the way they did 50 years ago. It is a constantly changing, massive chain of things that have to happen to bring a car on the road. Any point of that line can cause issues somewhere down the line. Instead of sweeping it under the rug, like US manufacturers, they recall. That is a good thing.
It’s a recall for tie rods breaking, and losing steering. Yeah…. Tie rods still work the same as they always have.
I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t some new tech, or something invented in the last few years. This is a production and QC problem, which Nissan has had MANY of.
They work the same way. But they don’t look the same, are made of something else and weight much less for the same performance. Even just changing the alloy slightly can have a massive impact.
You’re getting downvoted but absolutely right. The pressure on engineers to reduce cost, weight, cost, cost, and weight is immeasurable. This should have been caught in PT testing, and also after the first recall, but mid-level managers are very willing to sign off on engineering changes if there’s any chance of reducing cost. And weight. But mostly cost.
Which furthers my point. They have been “improving” them for decades. They shouldn’t fail.
There are a ton of metrics that can and have been improved. One of them is reliability, it went down. Now they fix it.
