Owner reviews for tie rod ends

The Delphi have been holding strong for almost two years now.

I bought a set of 555s in the end. They’re exactly the same size as old OEM, so when I went in for an alignment after installation, the techs were a bit confused why I was even there - turns out the car was already aligned :)

I usually only buy Meyle. Never had any problems.

I bought Delphi for my e60. My local foreign parts supplier says they don't come back.

bought mine from moog, still holding up 3 years now.

I purchased a Raybestos Premium tie rod end one time. It ended up being an old stock Made in USA moog part. Nice machined part as well. I ordered two but the other was a crappy Taiwan pressed tie rod end. It was for a Toyota and the Moog was close to OEM. I ended up sending the shitty Taiwan part back and buying OEM.

After what I went through on a work truck last time I used Moog TREs, I went back to Motorcraft only.

I got a replacement Delphi TA1646 Steering Tie Rod End Assembly from Amazon. The original tie rod had an allen wrench recess in the center so that you can hold it as you're tightening the nut. This one does not. Is this just defective or is there some trick I don't know about?

My moog ones are loud already after 7k miles

Very unhappy with this company right now. I was lucky to get US made tie rod ends as well, but one of the damn things popped a hole rather than grease escaping from bottom like the other side did.