kdawg89
Veteran Member
Hi All,
Took the Jetta for an alignment and they said the front left lower control arm bushings were too loose. The car has about 250K on the clock, the front bushings look pretty robust, do they generally fail or is it usually just the rear bushing that fails? I would do both but I guess there is a clearance issue on the driver side and the front bolt hits the transmission and I would rather not deal with dropping the subframe for clearance. Has anyone ever had to change the front bushing or is rear one usually the problem?
Thanks!
Edit: Actually it looks like the front both clearance issue might only be with the DSG and the manual might clear just fine. Does anyone know if you can change the lower control arms on a car with the 5 speed and have all the bolts clear?
Took the Jetta for an alignment and they said the front left lower control arm bushings were too loose. The car has about 250K on the clock, the front bushings look pretty robust, do they generally fail or is it usually just the rear bushing that fails? I would do both but I guess there is a clearance issue on the driver side and the front bolt hits the transmission and I would rather not deal with dropping the subframe for clearance. Has anyone ever had to change the front bushing or is rear one usually the problem?
Thanks!
Edit: Actually it looks like the front both clearance issue might only be with the DSG and the manual might clear just fine. Does anyone know if you can change the lower control arms on a car with the 5 speed and have all the bolts clear?
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