Lower Ball joints
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Ok, I just confirmed it lol. I pulled apart the right front side suspension and I have a broken balljoint. My car has 21K on the odometer right now lol ![Woohoo](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/woohoo.gif)
I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
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I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
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Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
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Ok, I just confirmed it lol. I pulled apart the right front side suspension and I have a broken balljoint. My car has 21K on the odometer right now lol ![Woohoo](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/woohoo.gif)
I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
![Woohoo](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/woohoo.gif)
I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
![Wink](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
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Ok, I just confirmed it lol. I pulled apart the right front side suspension and I have a broken balljoint. My car has 21K on the odometer right now lol ![Woohoo](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/woohoo.gif)
I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
![Woohoo](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/woohoo.gif)
I'll admit, I do drive the car a bit hard...
![Wink](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Anyways, I'm picking up a new set from Sewell Lexus tomorrow and replacing both sides. Good thing they're only 20mins away from my house.
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Keep in mind Jeff is also running Tein flex and TRD sway bars. If he turns hard and his coilovers can't compress, then the energy is transferred elsewhere, and most likely in this case, his balljoints. His driving is probably the most aggressive of anyone on CL. Heck, he bent the front endlinks of his car. No one else has managed to do that!. Couple that with hard brakings, the balljoints will eventually die
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He isn't driving a "bit" hard. He drives really hard
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He isn't driving a "bit" hard. He drives really hard
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Last edited by GSteg; 03-31-07 at 01:35 PM.
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I have been getting the same sort of symptoms stated in this post and I'm glad that I've read this post
. Thank you guys for the insight. I think I will have both changed out asap!!!
!!!
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Heck yeah, and I'm proud of it....well not really lol
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A bit off topic, but.....Holy cow the IS has a full TRD suspension upgrade kit. I'm SOOOO jealous!!!
This would seriously solve 90% percent of my complaints with the GS suspension lol!
http://www.l-tunedparts.com/product/?id=2413
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A bit off topic, but.....Holy cow the IS has a full TRD suspension upgrade kit. I'm SOOOO jealous!!!
![EEK!](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/eek1.gif)
This would seriously solve 90% percent of my complaints with the GS suspension lol!
http://www.l-tunedparts.com/product/?id=2413
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Heck yeah, and I'm proud of it....well not really lol
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A bit off topic, but.....Holy cow the IS has a full TRD suspension upgrade kit. I'm SOOOO jealous!!!
This would seriously solve 90% percent of my complaints with the GS suspension lol!
http://www.l-tunedparts.com/product/?id=2413
![](http://www.l-tunedparts.com/photos/2413/0.dat?1171595511)
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A bit off topic, but.....Holy cow the IS has a full TRD suspension upgrade kit. I'm SOOOO jealous!!!
![EEK!](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/eek1.gif)
This would seriously solve 90% percent of my complaints with the GS suspension lol!
http://www.l-tunedparts.com/product/?id=2413
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Jeff, the TRD suspension kit is nothing but the stock suspension replaced with new poly urathane bushings. As you can see for the lower control arm, it is still not a boxed in part and with lots of torque applied to it, this control arm will actually twist. How do I know this you might ask, well, I used to have a boosted IS and I went through a set of lower control arms until I realized that by boxing it in, it should be good to go.
anyway, i changed my ball joints at 109k miles. They were still ok. My lower control arm however....i need them ASAP.
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Front ball joint replacement in San Antonio is.....get ready.......
$525.00 (WTF!!!!!) NOT including the ball joints - which i already have.
It must be nice to have a monopoly on Lexus everything in San Antonio since it's the only dealreship here.
$525.00 (WTF!!!!!) NOT including the ball joints - which i already have.
It must be nice to have a monopoly on Lexus everything in San Antonio since it's the only dealreship here.
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Last edited by David1969; 05-03-07 at 09:41 AM.