Steering Tie Rod Assembly Problems of Toyota Camry

While driving steering started pulling to the left or the right. Alignment, outer, inner tie rods, lower and upper ball joints and strut mounts all checked normal. No warning lights or codes. Car goes straight after turning off and back but can suddenly start pulling. Checked for recalls and car VIN is not part of campaign number: 15v144000 (steering) which is exactly the problem I'm having this is a safety concern.

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I was driving home on Friday August 18th at about 35 mph. On a straight roadi suddenly lost my steering. When I got out to look at it the right from wheel was turned 90 degrees to the right. When looking at it it looks like the right front axel broke or tie rods or whatever is under there. When the colchester police came they did not file an accident report since it was their belief that something on the car had broken. The officer told me I was lucky to only be going 35 and not on the interstate doing 65. When the wrecker came he said he had never seen anything like this on a Camry. I did not hit a pothole or curb or anything else. Now Toyota (heritage Toyota, south burlington vt. Is not convinced that it was a defect. They are waiting for their regional office to make a determination. Just talked to heritage Toyota and they said it was not a defect. However they did not say what was wrong with it. They are acting like this is an every day occurrence. I just want to make you aware of this in case anyone else had the same issue.

Driving down highway at 60mph. Vehicle down the road slowed to enter merchant lot. Applied brake. Something snapped, steering locked, wheels locked, tires kicked out. Total loss of control of the vehicle. Skidded down the road until impacting the other vehicle on the side, pushing it back into traffic and continuing several feet until coming to rest in the ditch about 30 feet from several vehicles in the merchant lot. Tie rod broke. No airbags deployed, though I was told it was because of where my vehicle was hit was why they didn't deploy.

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Car has been swerving violently around curved roads. The alignment was thrown out of specification by broken coil springs. All other components such as ball joints tie rods wheel bearings. . . Were found to be within spec. Coil springs were both found broken, and unevenly. One coil was missing more coils than the other. If the coils had broken in a different place or there had been traffic a fatal collision could have occurred.

I purchased the vehicle and noticed that it had a few steering issues. Took it to a mechanic and had them replace the front tie rod end and was still noticing the click/clunk in the steering as I would turn. I then took it to Toyota to have recalls performed that had not been done by the prior owner and mentioned this to them. They said that it was very minor but that it was the intermediate steering shaft and I didn't need to worry about it. They performed the recalls. I have researched online and found numerous complaints about this part failing and most all agree that the unit is faulty and some have been told this by their Toyota mechanics. I also found where the recall on prius and corolla's were for the same thing. I tend to believe that the recall may need to be extended to other Toyota models including the Camry. I seriously am concerned about my safety however have been told that the problem is minor.

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This is a repair shop in the bethesda maryland area and the customers car is a 1996 Toyota Camry station wagon. The car has approx. 135,000 miles. We did major repairs to the car includes replace lower ball joints and right front axle. The customer called and said the right front wheel folded under the car. We had car towed to shop and found the castle retainer nut for the right outer tie was completely missing and the tie rod end came out of steering knuckle. The cotter key was still inside of the hole, which indicated the nut did not unthread but came apart- I went back where the car was towed from but could not find any part of the castle nut. We replaced both outer tie rod ends for safety and did four wheel alignment at no charge to customer. We found no cracks or problems with the castle nut from the other side, but both outer tie rod ends came with new castle nuts. We are filing the problem to see if any other Camry problems like this has been reported , at customers request.

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2004 Toyota solara this car is a manufacturers defect 100%. I have replaced 2 sets of brakes, rotors, calipers both right side. Also both inner tie rod ends and right cv shaft, wheel bearings. A new battery the interior is falling apart and the car is all over the road pulling to the right. Toyota refused to replace most of the parts as they say not covered under the new warranty.

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The consumer stated that the outer tie rod separated from the steering shaft which resulted in loss of steering. The threads are corroded on the steering shaft and the tie rod on the driver side. The tie rod threads were not apparent to vision when inspected. This was a known problem.

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My 2002 Toyota Camry when the steering is turned sharply there is a popping noise every time. This manufactured product has a problem.

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While parking vehicle right tire came off the rim. Mechanic stated tie rod needed replacement.