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sg_frost
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2.3 Ultima Estate (1998)
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bottom ball joints
« on: Mar 15th, 2004, 9:27pm » |
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Slight play in O/S/F bottom ball joint at MOT time. Can the joint be changed seperate from the arm, or must the whole thing be changed. Ford want £114 each inc vat. Working in a BMW garage and they simply press in and out, (sometimes with a big hammer though)
98 Ultima estate
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Snoopy
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Re: bottom ball joints
« Reply #1 on: Mar 16th, 2004, 6:56am » |
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My understanding of it is that they are NOT replaceable pasrts and are not listed as pasrts in the microcat parts index.. so thats why you have to replace the whole arm asssembly
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Snoopy
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Paul B
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Re: bottom ball joints
« Reply #2 on: Mar 16th, 2004, 8:21am » |
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Yes, that's quite right. You have to replace the whole arm... sickener innit? Expensive too.
There must be some way that someone could develop a a replaceable item for these. Its so wasteful, chucking away the whole thing for the sake of a failed joint. Anyone??
Paul
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cathouse
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Re: bottom ball joints
« Reply #3 on: Mar 17th, 2004, 6:52pm » |
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HI
I just had one changed. the garage that does the MOT did it and the manager asked his supplier of pattern parts if he could make them. he reckons it wouldn't be worth the expense of tooling up cos there are not enough about and he'd lose money.
roy
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dart
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Terrible design problem for something that can give up well before 100'000 miles!
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