Not sure if this is the place for this.. And I tried searching but I'm still a little confused..
A while ago my car started thudding over bumps.. then whenever I turned the wheel it would make this screeching noise.. the noise got louder and louder. Had my dad look at it, He said it was coming from the control arm. Called the local Ford dealer, they estimated it would be about $1400 for the whole thing. Big Brand told us about $1000. I decided to look elsewhere for the parts and my dad and I could install them ourselves. Found entire control arms from a junkyard for only $100 each, but the guy said there was no ball joints to be seen ( ). I did some searching and I see that now you can buy ball joints separately from the control arm and that seems how most people are fixing their ball joints nowadays. But Ford insists that you cannot buy ball joints separately, and Big Brand says you can but it's not recommended because when the ball joint is pressed in, the aluminum vs. steel will cause the aluminum to bend and warp because it is easily malleable..
Is this true? Or are the separate ball joints ok? Can somebody please clear this up for me? Thanks..
A while ago my car started thudding over bumps.. then whenever I turned the wheel it would make this screeching noise.. the noise got louder and louder. Had my dad look at it, He said it was coming from the control arm. Called the local Ford dealer, they estimated it would be about $1400 for the whole thing. Big Brand told us about $1000. I decided to look elsewhere for the parts and my dad and I could install them ourselves. Found entire control arms from a junkyard for only $100 each, but the guy said there was no ball joints to be seen ( ). I did some searching and I see that now you can buy ball joints separately from the control arm and that seems how most people are fixing their ball joints nowadays. But Ford insists that you cannot buy ball joints separately, and Big Brand says you can but it's not recommended because when the ball joint is pressed in, the aluminum vs. steel will cause the aluminum to bend and warp because it is easily malleable..
Is this true? Or are the separate ball joints ok? Can somebody please clear this up for me? Thanks..