Steering Tie Rod Assembly Problems of Subaru Forester

September 19, 2020, I was driving on the interstate, at 10:30 pm, going 75mph and al of a sudden I heard a loud pop. I had lost all control of my car and my front passenger side felt like it completely gave out on me. I slammed on the breaks and tried to get it on the right side of the road but I couldn�t. It sent me on the left hand side, the fast lane, right up against the interstate divider wall, my came to a stop ina couple seconds. I was sitting flush with the wall, I couldn't open my door, and I didn't want my passenger in the car to open his door onto oncoming traffic, I turned my emergency blinkers on and processed to climb out of my window onto the concrete wall. I starting looking at the front end of my car to see what had happened. I saw both of my front tires had popped, the passenger side had blew out and had holes in the side wall of the tire. It was driving on the wheel of the car because the wheel was all curbed and scraped. I noticed it was leaning lower on the ground on the front passenger side than driver side. I wasn't sure what it was because I couldn't see all that great with the wheels turned the way they was. I started looking further at the car, got on the ground to look under it and noticed an extreme amount of grease that was covering the majority of my steering column and my exhaust. So once cops came, filed a report and had a flat bed truck bring it to my house I was able to look more in depth to it in the day light. It had: snapped my control arm into 2 pieces ,bent my outer tie rod, snapped my cv axle, which caused all the grease to get out, the ball joint boot was leaking lubricant, possibly messed up the front strut tower, and so on what I couldn't see or tell was broken. The front driver side seems and looks intact. I've been having to replace the whole passenger side. I am the third owner of this car, I bought it Feb, 12, 2019.

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Driving down the road and left front wheel locked up car went out of control and ended up in a ditch. Lucky was only driving 35 mph and not out on the freeway. This happened on a rural road with limited traffic. Left front lower control arm broke and wheel came up against the inner fender and causing loss of control. This broke the cv axle in half and also broke the tie rod ends. Both wheels pointed outward found a recall 11464000 and it was never completed on the car. Just bought the car in PA 2 weeks ago.

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While vehicle was in motion on city streets and highways the rear-end shifts to the left when driving over a bump (dry or wet pavement). It also shifts to the left when driving on ice. I know cars perform poorly on ice, but I've had many driving careers and this problem is unique and not normal for any car. Also it hydroplanes easily. The rear tires (especially the right rear tire) wear unnaturally. I have to replace tires approximately every 18000 miles. This is a manual transmission and I rarely hit the brakes. I don't accelerate aggressively and never slam on the brakes. I usually get 60000+ miles from my tires. The front tires by comparison last 5-10 times longer than the rear tires based on the amount of tread wear as compared to the rear tires over the same amount of miles as I do rotate them regularly. This car makes me feel unsafe on ice at any speed and is a little bit hair raising just on wet pavement. Why it would shift to the left on the smallest of bumps and even on dry pavement (worse on wet pavement) is beyond me. Recently the control arms and tie rods had to be replaced at 102k miles. After that repair the check engine light came on and air sensors had to be replaced. This car seems like a lemon to me. I bought this new car figuring I wouldn't have issues I've had with used cars. I entered a date of 2016 when this happened since it has been happening since I bought this car although it happens every time I'm on ice.

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