Tiburon

While wheeling on Sunday I hit a tree with my left front tire which knocked my steering wheel off center. Drove home with the ESP/BAS and skidding car symbol all lit up. On Monday I got underneath and re-centered the steering wheel and 25 miles later the ESP/BAS and skidding car symbol turned off. I also inspected for any bent steering components, nothing obvious found. Got it up to 80 mph and rides straight as an arrow, no shake, no shimmy, no death wobble.

I’ve seen many posts of guys bending drag links and tie rods. When I got home Sunday night I went online and started shopping for a beefed up drag link and tie rod. Then I got to thinking, obviously the weak links are the drag link and tie rod, if I beef those up what becomes the next weak link? Would it be cheaper to re-center the steering wheel and possibly replace the drag link and/or tie rod or deal with whatever damage might be caused by the next weak link? Thoughts and ideas please.

Tiburon

I already have JKS adjustable track bars, which are much beefier than the oem ones, hence why they are not on my list of weak links. Right now, my train of thought is, better to leave the oem components alone and deal with them if they get damaged, which might be cheaper than what damage can be caused by pushing the weak link up.