adamhaver

Anyone knows about good replacement? Bushing or a whole arm would be okay also.
LS460 4th
Adam

adamhaver

need something durable last one i installed got damaged after some months

fwhomeboy

Tell the guys exactly what car you have. Also, do a search on here for Control arms.

LR3vsLS

rockauto...you can* get all arms.

roadfrog

+1 thats what most of us have done

LR3vsLS

can* is what I meant

joedaddy1

iTrader: (1)

what brand was your last one and where did you purchase them?

LR3vsLS

It's almost irrelevant, they all wear out rather quickly.

joedaddy1

iTrader: (1)

vs OEM? or are you including OEM?

OEM is at least 10+ years for me.. so trying to figure out what's a not-bad alternative.

LR3vsLS

Even the OEM ones wear out quickly. What are you basing the 10+ years on? I'm sure they are jelly when you take them off after 10 years.

mckellyb

How long suspension bushes last is more use-based than time-based.

Sure, they're going to dry-rot, eventually, but it's getting repeatedly squished and tweaked which typically wears them out.

I'd say 150K miles is reasonable for most cars & conditions, but not many, if any, LS 460s on this forum have made it much past 100K miles without at least the symptoms of toasted bushes.

This 150K miles is not valid for vehicles used commercially or where the roads/environmental conditions are a mess. NYC, for example.

Personally, I'm going to put urethane ones in, as I don't want to have to change them for quite a while. People say the ride will turn to crap, but I did this to my 1998 Grand Cherokee 5.9L, and it feels the same as the old, worn-out, rubber ones. At the same time, the key is to not use the hardest bushes you can find! Polyurethane comes in different densities.

1WILLY1

iTrader: (9)

Its so hard to get good info on the control arms , no one posts about what brand they used and how long they have lasted.

Even in this thread we don't know what kind the OP used, which he said failed quickly, so we can stay away from them.

I do agree with rock auto though, I trust that anything they carry would be at least halfway decent.

LR3vsLS

I installed a rockauto set on someones LS and they looked and felt quality...just as quality as OEM.

1WILLY1

iTrader: (9)

Rock auto has like 10 different brands of control arms , which ones did you use?

johnnyg66

I used MAS brand and did source some Febest brand too. So far the quality on both have been good. Cost is great too.