I bought my son a ~125k mile 2003 Taurus SEL 2 years ago. When he went off to college with it, I fixed pretty much every issue and noise it had. It's back home and it's got a number of issues, including a decent amount of rattling on rough roads/pot holes. Most of the noise sounds like rear suspension.. particularly strange since I replaced both complete rear strut assemblies 2yrs ago to fix the minor noise from an elongated upper bushing hole. Statically cranking the rear body/suspension up and down very hard only gave a minor clicking sound... which traced to the left front and the inner tie rod. It moves around 1/16" or one thread. I bought the part but just curious- is it standard practice that zero slop is acceptable? There is zero slop on the right side.