Steering Tie Rod Assembly Problems of Mitsubishi Montero Sport

While leaving a parking lot. Lost steering capability. During troubleshooting found the drivers side outer tie rod had seperated from the adjust tube. Both lock nuts were tight and in the original positions and the adjust tube and inner tie rod were tight. Threads of the tie rod did not appear to be stripped but the adjust tube would not tighten to the outter tie rod lock nut. This is the first and only instance of this failure on this car. Dealer is replacing both drivers and passanger side inner tie rod, outer tie rod and adjust tube at my cost. My concern is the servarity of the failure. If this would have happened while on the highway it would have been a major accident with deaths or major injury occuring. Auto is 10 years old with approx 120000 miles. Manufacturer and dealer both indicated that this is a wear item but is not part of an inspection.

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2001 mitsubushi Montero Sport. . . Tie rod sleeve on passenger side unexpectedly came apart as I was pulling out from parking space onto busy roadway. This caused me to not be able to steer correctly. Mechanic replaced tie rod and feels that it was a manufacturing defect as threads where still intact just fitting was not proper. You have the ability to screw tie rod together and physically pull them apart by hand. Had this happened while driving on highway results could have been catastrophic. Before this incident there was no indication of a problem with the tie rods that failed so needless to say when they came apart it was a total shock. I do have the old parts that where removed for inspection if necessary. The repair bill was $285 I was hoping to be able to recoup our expenses. I'm hoping you can advise me on how to do this. Thank you.

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