General Motors needs to issue a recall on their Chevy Cobalt control arm bushings.

After replacing my control arm bushings today I was rather mad to see when unbolted the control arm rubber just fell out leaving the metal still pressed in.

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get use to it man these go so often its unreal ive done four sets in a year

 

Damn mine are being replaced to I wonder if mines that bad

 

the last set i did was in oct and there beat out again im doing mine tomoro AGAIN

 

Does this make a clunky/bumpy noise on rough roads!?

Joel

 

when these go do you notice a loud clunking noise?

 

Im starting to hear some noise from my front end as well.. Im at 46k. If its the control arm bushing I will let gm replace them then just buy fe5 arms with powell cabs and sell off the fe3 pieces to an fe1 guy.

 

Exactly what I told you was going to happen when I replied to you @ gminsidenews.

 

Mine are clunking away like nuts.. I have to do them in the spring.. I really don't see a need for those fancy spherical ones, OEM is just fine.

The only problem with OEM is they are not made for the wheel hop that most of us tend to get. A few times will kill them.

 

I'm on the yearly plan for these.

 

you have a base cobalt? the SS ones have upgraded control arms. And how many miles do you have? idk I think its a common problem on base models.

 

I had my driver side replaced when I took it in for the power steering recall. It turns out the entire bushing had fallen out some time ago and was the cause of the clunk in my front end, and not a bent rim like me dad was trying to convince himself of. In the end, $400 and a new bushing and control arm later, the car feels better then when I bought it from the dealer in the first place.

 

They do have upgraded aluminum control arms ,but it's the same design as the stamped steel ones on the base cobalt, and the control arm bushing is the same, I think.

 

So, when you hit some abrupt bumps, you hear a "clunk" sound? Because ive noticed mine does this lately...

 

i got poly bushings

 

from where? Might as well upgrade to those if mine are bad as well...

 

in for more info, since they did the steering column recall yet i still get clunking noise its really annoying

 

Poly CABs are a "holy ******* **** bitch ****" bad idea.

 

??what lol



and the ones i got ae the intense racing

 

Well it must be slightly diff cuz the base ones fail frequently from what I hear and the ss ones dont . I think they rip by 40-50k miles though. Idk I just have powell cabs ready

 

just upgrade um if you need to replace um and your oit of warrenty itll pay for itself

 

It's soo common on base models everyone of them with 30,000+miles always has leaking struts and bad control arm bushings I see it everyday

 

and thats why i have done a complete suspension swap to tc **** on my lt, with powells cabs

 

What did you replace them with? stock?

I need new ones but I dont want the stock ones.

 

I said poly CABs are a horrible idea! I would explain myself but I really have to go. Search around on here and read a little bit.