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Little help on how car suspension and steering works?

I already know how a rear suspension system works, and how shock absorbers and springs work, but what I can never understand is that in a front wheel drive car, if there needs to be a straight axle to convery power to both front wheels, how can they turn without coming unaligned? And even in rear wheel drive cars, if there is an axle, how does the system work?I already looked at the howstuffworks article on it, so if anyone has a good big article on it, I‘d like to read it, or even if you could explain it here.

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A GM mechanic friend of mine suggests a bottle of injector cleaner every once in awhile, but also having the entire system power cleaned every 30k miles.
Don't use anything that the owners manual does not say. Your nissan may need injector and induction cleaning services performed by your nissan dealer. But only every 60,000 miles. Keep clean oil and clean airfilters will make a bigger difference. Floor it once a while!
CV joint is not the answer. What you're talking about is explained in the definition of a differential. In the rear-wheel drive car that differential gear between the rear wheels is what allows one wheel to turn faster than the one on the other side when the car is going around corners. At least that's what I interpret your question to be. Google it!
Constant Velocity (CV) Joints. They allow the wheel to turn and still drive it.
You don't need additives if you keep up on preventative maintenance

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