I've developed a horrendous clicking to go along with my rattle noise...

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I went out just now and looked at mine... theres supposed to be a rubber boot around that piece... i dunno if urs just fell off and its fine, or maybe thats where the rattle is and that made it come off..

 

Interesting. Usually the rubber tears away from the outer steel liner. It looks like the inner steel sleeve has torn out of the bushing. The fresh mark you see is the arm moving up and down over every bump and yeah, it's making a noise each time hitting the subframe.

 

looks like polyurethane junk to me not oem bushing. call OTTP for help....

 

Thanks quik, you think this could be part of my driveline chatter problem as well?

 

Yes! My buddy and I replaced them on his G5. Do not buy polyurethane ones, just get factory ones from the dealership, they were like $15 each. Broken lower control arm bushings will cause the car to make a "clunking" noise when you go over any kind of bump, be it a speed bump, a pothole, or up the curb of a driveway. I would replace those as soon as possible. It books at the dealership for a 5 hour job, they told us; we finished in 3.

You will need to get the new ones pressed into the control arm, though. The dealership almost NEVER replaces just the bushing, they replace the entire control arm, because there is a risk of making the part of the control arm that the bushing sits in, oblong. We got his pressed for $45 for both.

 

unfortunately the FE5 bushings in the alloy control arm of a cobalt are 52 bucks dealer cost not 15. good luck, national backorder last time i checked

 

i'm getting a set of sphereicals from OTT

 

thanks shadow, thats excellent information. I think the bushings in mine might be shot on the passenger side.

 

Not a problem!

If you need any help at all just shoot me a PM.

 

Yeah, poly CAB's don't hold up long, I went through a couple sets before I made a set of spherical ones for my car.