When I take my foot off the gas it feels like my car would come to a complete stop within a short distance if I let it coast. The brakes and e brake were checked and they are supposedly fine. It seems to be worse at lower speeds. Also it rides rough in the front. I took it to a shop for both issues and the only thing they found was out tie rods on the front. Well over 400$ later both issues are still there and getting worse. Does anyone know what this could be? I have an 08 Ford Escape with 63k miles on it. It’s the smaller engine front wheel drive.

they did an alignment when they changed the outer tie rods on the front. It is an automatic.

Did they check the rear alignment too?

Did the dragging come on slowly or fairly quickly?

I believe they did a full alignment when the tie rods were replaced. It came on fairly quickly. Seems like after they did that work it got a lot worse within a week.

The steering doesn’t feel any different but I did smell a slight burning rubber smell. It’s not all the time and at higher speeds even highway speeds it handles fine. Maybe I should just chalk up the money I spent as a loss and have another shop check it out?