tie rod ends leaking grease????????

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i just changed the rotors on my vy commodore and adjusted my steering wheel so it sits straighter(off to the left a bit) and noticed that both tie rod ends were wet, on closer inspection i noticed that there was grease coming from the underneath of both tie rod ends, thought it might be cv boots but they are ok.

anyone had this before, i replaced them bout 8-12months ago with genuine parts from holden, and haven't driven in a way that would cause this, so don't know why this would happen.

any help greatly appreciated.

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any one had this before?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

As grease heats up it thins out, so it is probably just that weeping out of the gaps. It also depends on what they actually used to lubricate the tie rod ends when they were manufactured.

CV boots or rack boots?

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cv boots, as its that cv type of grease(that thick greeny colour), the rack boots are ok, minor weep from the l/h one but nation wide won't replace under warranty as its not an internal seal, but the grease (greeny thick colour) is coming out of the base of the tie rod ends not the boots on the tie rod ends, and there farely new, they shouldn't be leaking that quick should they in bout 8 months? just found receipt 27 march i bought them.

would that be covered under a parts warranty cause of parts being less than 12 months old or not?

[Cheap6]

i just [changed the rotors on my vy commodore and] adjusted my steering wheel so it sits straighter(off to the left a bit).

How? Unless you were very careful and measured the exposed length of tie rod before and after (moving the tie rod outer end) it is likely the wheel alignment (toe) will now be wrong. If you moved the steering wheel on the splines, the clock spring for the air bag will not be correctly positioned.

cv boots, as its that cv type of grease(that thick greeny colour), the rack boots are ok, minor weep from the l/h one but nation wide won't replace under warranty as its not an internal seal, but the grease (greeny thick colour) is coming out of the base of the tie rod ends not the boots on the tie rod ends, and there farely new, they shouldn't be leaking that quick should they in bout 8 months? just found receipt 27 march i bought them.

Would that be covered under a parts warranty cause of parts being less than 12 months old or not?

The oil weep from the 'rack boot is an internal leak from the 'rack as there is no other way for the oil to get into the 'rack boot. I think that it is worth the cost of a cable tie to see just how much oil is being held inside the boot. Ideally, there should be none.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

There are no CV boots on the front of a Commodore. CV stands for Constant Velocity, it is a joint, not a boot. The rear axles have CV joints and thus CV boots on the inner and outer.

You can centralize the wheel by just turning the tie rods the same amount on the left and right. Really easy to do.

I still think it is just the grease used in manufacture weeping out of the tie rod ends.

[Cheap6]

You can centralize the wheel by just turning the tie rods the same amount on the left and right. Really easy to do.
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And really easy to screw up. A little bit out at the tie rods is a lot at the tyre tread.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Did wheel alignments for eight years, if done incorrectly it can be devastating on tyres.

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sozz, yeh i adjusted the steering wheel at the tie rods, a guy at my work is from the place that did our alignments, he showed me what to do, he was there for bout same time as not_an_abba_fan, yeh i had a 4wd and put a suspension lift kit in, the place that did it for me sent it for an allignment, i did not even 5-10k before in sold it after the suspension to buy the commodore and it had completly scrubbed the front tyres, and they were good treaded tyres before the alignment

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yeh it seems a little strange to me that its leaking, i work in a dealership and haven't seen tie rod ends leak before, especialy not newly fitted ones.

seen alot of factory cars destroy tyres within the first 20,000k's from alignments not being done at pre-delivery and just certain models doing it as like a factory thing, always scolloping tyres realy bad even after allignments and wearing out inner edges aswell (mainly front wheel cars from my experience seems to be, but i'm still fresh in industry