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Broken front control arm!

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Install coilovers and i'm positive everything was fine

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I recently installed coilovers and I'm positive everything was fine then.

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I recently installed coilovers and I'm positive everything was fine then.

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

I think this happened a few weeks ago when pulling into a parking lot at about 20-25mph, I heard a loud bang/snap. I immediately parked the car and took a quick look but didn't see anything wrong. The car seemed fine driving home. This last week I had the car out and something seemed off and when I came to a stop and let off the brakes I could feel the front left move a little. When I got home I pulled the front drivers side wheel and found the damage. I picked up a used arm from a salvage yard for 30 bucks and installed it this evening. I'm a little worried the coffin arm or upper strut mount may have been damaged when I drove the car with the broken arm... Anywho.. just a FYI for others out there.

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was your car ever winched onto a flatbed and they didn't use the screw in bumper tow hook?

POST 4 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Not that I know of. I've only owned the car for about 9 months though. I recently installed coilovers and I'm positive everything was fine then.

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That's a strange break point. There has to be an explanation for the failure to occur outside of a mounting location on either end of the control arm. I've seen bolts shear, joints fail, but unless you (or a PO) hit something at 30mph+ I don't see how that happens. Good job finding a replacement part for that price!

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An acquaintance had one break like that sometime after the car had been pulled up on a flatbed. He wasn't there when it was picked up. The flatbed driver winched the car up by attaching the cable to that arm.

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