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All I can guess is that maybe a tow truck driver used the control arm as a place to hook his chain to
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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Just found my control arm on the drivers side front trashed. Also noticed that there's a wobbly little arm thing that used to be attached to the control arm held down by plastic. Does anyone know what this is? I looked up control arms for this car and can't seem to find what this piece is. The control arm kits for this car don't have it either.

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That connects the arm to the leveling sensor (in upper right of your pic) for your Litronic headlights. There will be a sensor at both wheels on the left side of the car. Andrew.

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Thanks, never would have thought of that. Hopefully the dealer has the plastic part separately.

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That's an odd place to have damage that severe. All I can guess is that maybe a tow truck driver used the control arm as a place to hook his chain to

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The dealer has the part, make sure you get the rivet nut (plastic) also that attaches it to the hole in your new control arm. I broke mine doing rear suspension last year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I got the car from Copart so yes anything could have happened on the way or from transport so yes you're probably right.

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Great, thanks for letting me know. Will contact them tomorrow.

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