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Balljoint Life?
Posted by RodM (more from RodM) on Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:35:58
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I drove my wife's 98 9k on Tuesday for the first time in a while. I was going round a fairly sharp bend on an expressway on-ramp when all of a sudden I felt a weird movement from the front left wheel. I first thought I'd hit a patch of oil, but then it did it again. When I got the car home I jacked it up and I couldn't believe how much play there was in the balljoint - like nothing I've ever seen before. I am sure I checked it back in April when I put the summer tires on, so it went from fine to lethal in a few months.
I last replaced the balljoints about 40,000 miles ago, in October 2008. Is that about the standard life for these things? I don't have any regular schedule for replacing the balljoints - I usually just do it when I'm trying to track down one of those mysterious clunks in the suspension. But I'm now thinking that it wouldn't be a bad idea to add this to my preventative maintenance schedule.
And my wife did say that she had noticed something was amiss when she went round right hand turns, but thought she was just taking the corners too fast and hadn't got round to mentioning it to me.
Rod
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Posts in this Thread:
- Balljoint Life?, RodM, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:35:58 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Balljoint Life?, Cesar Gonzalez, Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:32:06
- Did one on each car...., Noel, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 12:58:29
- Balljoints were from eEuroparts, RodM, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:47:54
- related question, diagnosis, TML , Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:41:13
- Ohhh yes.., dref, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 12:32:07
- Re: related question, diagnosis, T. Christopher, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:23:08
- Re: related question, diagnosis, RodM, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:55:02
- Re: Balljoint Life?, Craig, Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:31:08
- Re: Balljoint Life?, Bill Homer , Thu, 9 Aug 2012 07:54:50
- Did you use Saab balljoints?, turrbo , Thu, 9 Aug 2012 07:04:33
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