lower ball joints/control arms, has anyone delved into this?

[breakfasteatre]

So yesterday i noticed my drivers side lower ball joint was dead, grease spewing out of every orifice. Today i find out the control arm and ball joint are one piece. wtf
from the dealer its like 250

on my passat, the ball joint was seperate

idiotic engineering.

anyways, I read on msf about dominant doing lower control arms, that they would be around 600. offer camber adjustment. I would prefer not to spend this much
I can get a control arm from standard auto wreckers for 105 bucks.

am i missing any other options? Ford focus control arms?

[CelestSpeed3]

This is something I'm interested in as well.

I think someone looked into the focus balljoints and the taper was different so you can't use them.

I would try Canadian Tire, you never know if Monroe offers an aftermarket OEM replacement set.

[breakfasteatre]

dorman, from autopartsway, 125 bucks. still, such bullshit that its one piece

80 bucks from jcwhitney

pssst: 82 bucks + shipping for camber arms...
http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=1038918

[Thrizzl3]

do you want to try the ones i have sitting here?

[breakfasteatre]

you have the entire control arm? its definitely all one piece

[Fobio]

dorman, from autopartsway, 125 bucks. still, such bullshit that its one piece

80 bucks from jcwhitney

pssst: 82 bucks + shipping for camber arms...
http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=1038918

those are pretty good prices...

[Thrizzl3]

you have the entire control arm? its definitely all one piece

no the ball joint lol.

[Y.B]

There's a place in brampton that quoted me for 200 for the control arm and install. Let me know if you're interested and ill pm you the name.

[CelestSpeed3]

Maybe we can cross reference another platform for something.


Maybe someone will make roll center adjusters for us. That would be the icing on the cake with Whiteline's anti-lift kit.

[standsideways]

someone has used another platforms ball joints on our chassis, with success.

mazda3forums has it somewhere. IIRC they used BMW parts.



can you just replace the boots?

[breakfasteatre]

No idea how long it's been dead. I think I'm going to pick up the jc whitney part

[CelestSpeed3]

Once again ROCK AUTO FTW!!!

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,ca...parttype,10070

[breakfasteatre]

Once again ROCK AUTO FTW!!!

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,ca...parttype,10070

how the shit would you press that in?

edit: i love how the enhanced version's photo shows a rusty part

edit: with this: http://www.princessauto.com/pal/prod...ss-Service-Kit

[breakfasteatre]

ordered the ball joints, youre the man paul. Dropping by partsource to return the spring compressor, ill check to see if they have the press to borrow

[kickz]

i would stick with the oem arms i find sometimes the aftermarket bal joints are noisey

[CelestSpeed3]

They sell OEM arms as well. They are not listed as Mazda but they are overstock from Mazda suppliers.

[BlueStreak]

Ahem... Click

[standsideways]

i would stick with the oem arms i find sometimes the aftermarket bal joints are noisey

How many ball joints have you replaced?

[breakfasteatre]

Dave. 700 bucks for both sides

[standsideways]

Ahem... Click

I've been lookin at those for 2 months.

His work looks A+

[CelestSpeed3]

He wants $700 for both sides?

Mmm, if that the case you might be better off with oem arms and whiteline bushings with the corksport camber plates.

We'll know more when they are actually released.

[Kiyomi]

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looks interesting. but expensive. pay to play