[Zeke]

Could be the tires. Whenever I get new tires on any car, they always seem to lighten up the steering over the old tires with little tread left.

When you do multiple changes at one time, you lose your benchmark; you don't know which to blame for what. Old racers' trick: only change one thing at a time to fully understand the effect of the change.

Now obviously I'm not really sugesting that you make several trips to the tire shop to install one component at a time. I'm only defending my opinion that the tie rods may have nothing to do with the *new* feeling of the car.