My left tie rod assembly is super loose and can be seen wiggling on the dust seal holder. My mechanic is able to get the right tie rob assembly but cannot find the left as Honda has discontinued it. I have a good amount of work that needs to be done soon but without this part there is no point...

I took my Insight to Firestone for an alignment this afternoon. The say they cannot do it until I replace the front tie rods. They say they have been fused together and because it's metal-aluminum, they can't take a torch to it. I put four new Potenza's on a year ago, and the two front are...