I've had to cut mine out in the past and on wife's 2001, i used a 24" Piper wrench and bent the outer tie rod.

Fortunately i did break it loose and iy didn't matter that it was bent I was able to do a decent string alignment on the car.

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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)