The Mazda 3 Steering Knuckle is at the intersection of the steering and the front wheels of the compact car, as it allows the front wheels to pivot when turning the car and glide over bumps. It is cast in special, strong steel or aluminum, thus making the strut or upper arm heavy at the top, the lower control arm heavy at the bottom, and the tie rod heavy at the side, and the loads on the wheel and brakes are taken by a hub at the center. Since Mazda prefers front-drive systems, the knuckles are of the hub-type construction, with the sealed bearings forced into the casting and the drive shaft passing through to fit to the hub, ensuring there is minimal weight and maintenance is easy. Performance trims providing all wheels with power use the same arrangement of hubs but include a hollow channel to allow the shaft to pass without altering outer geometry. Outdated spindle-type or kingpin assemblies continued to be applied on trucks and never on cars, so there is limited variation between the models. With ball joints as opposed to older kingpin designs, the current Steering Knuckle uses ball joints to rotate smoothly and to hold the wheel on a constant plane. Checking for deformed ball-joint tapers or damaged hub threads must be carried out regularly, since having less-than-perfect joints compromises the whole Steering Knuckle and all that will be safe is to replace it with a new one. Authentic Mazda metallurgy is a guarantee of long service life, but a severe curb strike will bend the part, and hence subsequent revisions to the part avoided additional mass in the casting, turning the part into a protector of assured handling for Mazda 3 drivers.
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