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Originally Posted by johnnyb44
Just had a couple of new tyres on the rear and while they where off it gave me another view of the arms.
The drivers side seems to be alot worse with some weight saving holes that shouldn't be there.After seeing it ,the alarm bells were truly ringing and called the garage who's doing the job of replacing them in a few weeks and asked if the job could be brought forward.
Thankfully he's got a slot so there now being done on the 7th of May just after bank holiday.Im sure and hoping they will get through next week for travelling to work.Once next week is done I will lay the car up ready for Tuesday 7th.
The mechanic seems unfazed about doing them and the seized bolts he's got to wrestle off.I suppose our cars or not the only ones out there that suffer from the same thing
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Hi John.
It has most likely been like that for some time, so i doubt it will fail in the next week or so, from the photo below you can see even if the cup which the spring resides in fails, there is a secondary support below, if that is full of rust as well then maybe but i have not seen an arm with both fully rusted through.
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The above did not even show until i started to poke around after a broken spring.
Under the arm.
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All changed to this a virtually brand new subframe upper lower arms roll bar, and drop links.
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