chrisindub

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And boy did that make my sphincter tone increase!!!!!!!!! I hear this usually happens at low speed. I was driving about 20 mph and heard this scratching noise, then boom on the left front. Immediately slowed down, nursed the car into a parking lot. Called for a tow. My car is dropped, but it immediately was 2" lower on the front left, see picture.....

After I got it on the lift at my friend's shop, I found the balljoint pulled right out of the lower control arm! Bent my brake's dust shield. I was driving for a half block with the fender resting on the tire!

Anyone else had this level of excitement in an sc? Make sure your balljoints are good, I was lucky to have not totaled my car.

LameSC300

Dang man that sucks, that's good you're ok and your car wasn't destroyed. Also nice signature

OG Dada

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Had the same experience. I was on my way home to actually check on it, I was a few blocks away when it happened. Coming from a stoplight, going 20mph, then boom heard a loud cracking sound, immediately pulled over to the shoulder, and as soon as I stopped the driverside went 4in lower. And I was at a bridge over a freeway. Good thing it was noon and the bridge wasn't that busy.

ihiryu

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Wow! I've never heard of that, glad you're okay!

Man we can't press out our ball joints either

Candela

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Good thing u pulled over. Nice tints !

ecstaticSC

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How many miles does your car have?

chrisindub

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Mine has just over 200K miles, original LCA's
KingPhilip, how many miles did yours have on it when yours broke?

Thankfully I had a set of used LCAs with good balljoints waiting to replace mine.

OG Dada

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Around 177,000miles.

Luxor

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Got pics of the separated ball joint?

chrisindub

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Left a bunch of the surrounding rubber where it fell when my car broke, Think the control arm and joint are still at my friend's shop.

Someone I knew said there was a way to rebuild these balljoints, What a PITA to swap the metal cylinder in the LCA bushings!!!!

chrisindub

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Put smaller tires 235/40/18's up front

It has 245/40/18 in back

Put on the used LCA's I had and got an alignment.

This car handles amazing now, I had no idea how much the negative camber I had was negatively affecting the car's handling.

I can only imagine how bad all the extremely cambered slammed cars handle.

Biggu

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if your car had 200k You should have been expecting it. I replaced all my stock arms at 100k.

hovsc400

i have had that experience as well driver side busted on me in publix parking lot