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Glad your auto repair service restored braking. Stopping a car is the most important thing!
If a tie rod is bad, usually replace in pairs.
Also, if not already, inspect the inner tie rods under them steering rack accordion style bellows boots. Check for power steering fluid leaks. Maybe clean under there like power wash before getting in there. You mechanic appreciates it! If concerned about steering, the power steering fluid may like a change, yet folks let it gor fort decades.
The inner tie rods can fail. The steering rack bellows can last a very long time, yet a road object strike, power steering fluid, and neglect. Used and new ones are available. Maybe buy new unless a hole free used? I have used bellows I pulled from yunkyards in there.
If newly replaced front steering dampers, your mechanic inspected both ball joints and the front suspension bushings. Did he check the front wheel bearings? Easy to pack grease in there.
Glad you have safe and firm brakes. Volvo Car AB, if it was 1991, probably has a policy that each Volvo has brake bled using a pressure bleeder with new DOT 4 brake fluid. I hope your brake fluid is not black!
An automobile is a dependent assembly so I see it is a dependent series of systems comprised of discrete objects! And it is made in Torslanda Volvo 240 ... ! Wish they kept the Halifax Canada plant open.
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