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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 11:46 AM
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How do you know if you control arms need changing. My car seems to be okay. No noise, no vibrations, still seems smooth. I just want a heads up on what to look out for.

I was getting vibration under braking, also, I recently went to get new front tires. While they had the car on the lift they asked when I had my last alignment (my old front tires were worn on the inside edge), I told them I had the alignment done not even 6 months ago so I didn't even have 7k miles since. They took a pry bar and showed me the flex in the control arms - that made it pretty clear. When we took my old lower control arms off the bushing had a crack that went all the way around like a ring around the bolt hole, then the upper control arms had cracks in the "arms" of the inner bushing as well as radial cracks around the edges of the bushings.
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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 11:49 AM
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Thanks dude! Do you have pics of the bad control arm? It would be cool to have an old vs. new pic.
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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 12:05 PM
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What did you use to bleed your brakes?? Some sort of pump?
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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 12:10 PM
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My Old one:



New One:
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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 12:40 PM
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^^^ Thanks Bro
Also, thanks for all your help too!!!
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 10:53 AM
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Where are the pictures of the wheels with the new rotors installed
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MORI3L
Where are the pictures of the wheels with the new rotors installed

Gimme a bit, I've been really busy at work and we were chatting and drinking after the install so it got a little forgotten
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