disting
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No it's not an illness !
...our A2 recently had an MOT while we were away . Taken to garage by someone else to have it done .Unusually it failed. - due to lower suspension arm corrosion, and was replaced again with a pressed steel arm. It therefore has the bolt on ball joint.
car is a 2004 1.4 Tdi sport with Open Sky Roof. annoyingly though the garage also noted a 'repair as soon as possible'- offside front suspension arm ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated .- I take it this must be the ball joint dust cover??
Is the same side as where they replaced the suspension arm!!. I cannot for the life in me understand why they didn't replace the dust cover when they had everything apart at the time. For the sake now of a £2 dust cover , I no doubt will have oodles of labour charges. To access the same area again.
so, I propose to fit it myself.
anybody done this?, Easy job? , any tips , tricks, special tools?, And if possible the torque settings for the 3 bolts that attach the ball joint to the control arm and the nut on the top of the ball joint . Will the ball joint just spin when undoing the nut above it? Once removed is the suspension lowered then the 3 ball joint connecting bolts removed?
i take it all nuts are easily accessible. ?
( interestingly i had a quick look at the ball joint where it connects to the control arm, and on both sides only 2 of the 3 threads have nuts on !?? The central one being nutless is this normal??)
if i can get a couple of ball joints cheap enough i may just replace both sides with 2 new ball joints if it's an easy job .
thanks in advance for any help
andy
...our A2 recently had an MOT while we were away . Taken to garage by someone else to have it done .Unusually it failed. - due to lower suspension arm corrosion, and was replaced again with a pressed steel arm. It therefore has the bolt on ball joint.
car is a 2004 1.4 Tdi sport with Open Sky Roof. annoyingly though the garage also noted a 'repair as soon as possible'- offside front suspension arm ball joint dust cover severely deteriorated .- I take it this must be the ball joint dust cover??
Is the same side as where they replaced the suspension arm!!. I cannot for the life in me understand why they didn't replace the dust cover when they had everything apart at the time. For the sake now of a £2 dust cover , I no doubt will have oodles of labour charges. To access the same area again.
so, I propose to fit it myself.
anybody done this?, Easy job? , any tips , tricks, special tools?, And if possible the torque settings for the 3 bolts that attach the ball joint to the control arm and the nut on the top of the ball joint . Will the ball joint just spin when undoing the nut above it? Once removed is the suspension lowered then the 3 ball joint connecting bolts removed?
i take it all nuts are easily accessible. ?
( interestingly i had a quick look at the ball joint where it connects to the control arm, and on both sides only 2 of the 3 threads have nuts on !?? The central one being nutless is this normal??)
if i can get a couple of ball joints cheap enough i may just replace both sides with 2 new ball joints if it's an easy job .
thanks in advance for any help
andy